Continue Reading Nothing is fixed Feeling demoralized? Acknowledge it. Sad? Allow it. Worried? Accept it. These emotional reactions have a function, just as positive thinking does. They…
Continue Reading The Duty to Protest Here the poem is read. Want to guess when Protest was published? In 1914, in a book by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, titled…
Continue Reading The Rewards of Routine I am not exactly a creature of habit but I do like the contentment that comes from frequent and regular visits to…
Continue Reading The Urge to Display Yesterday was an emotional day. We attended my son’s dissertation defense via Zoom, sad that we could not be there in person…
Continue Reading The Need To Learn When I observe wildflowers, plants and the natural environment around me, I feel joy, a sense of place, being here and being…
Continue Reading The Will to Disobey “Vorsicht, Kindchen, Vorsicht!” (Careful, kiddo, careful…) was a constant refrain in the household of my childhood, outnumbering even the “Straighten your back!”…
Continue Reading I look at the World I’ll end this week with images depicting the state of our nation: things in flux, despite being trampled down, Black and White in…
Continue Reading Eau de Casselunettes I rarely regret my habit of discarding mementos. No kids’ kindergarten drawings clog my drawers, no receipts for memorable journeys, few letters….
Continue Reading Consider the Lilies of the Field. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they…
Continue Reading I, Borage, bring Courage. Yesterday I wrote about Hemlock, a poisonous plant that can kill. In the interest of fair and balanced reporting – and no,…
