Continue Reading If in doubt, take a walk So ok, I was muttering. Venting, really. Blabbering. One of those days when everything that could irritate did irritate. R e a…
Continue Reading Compassion & Choices “Some consider death as a landing; others see it as a point of lift-off.” …
Continue Reading The Inside Show “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” …
Continue Reading The Soft Power of Mothers Just so you know how coincidence sometimes works: I was following, with scarcely contained envy, the Viennese travels of someone I know….
Continue Reading Encounter in a Lily Garden Last summer I chanced on a Lily Fest in the woods near Forst Grove. I reported here in July on the floral…
Continue Reading Encounters during Lunch Hour I had meant to write today about a man I met during his lunch hour. He was watching the street actions of…
Continue Reading Encounter in a Parking Lot Today I will report on one of those “You ok? No, I’m not.” encounters. During my recent foray to San Francisco I was…
Continue Reading Encounters in Astoria When you work mostly with your head, like I do, and are surrounded mostly by others who do too, it is often…
Continue Reading Encounters by the wayside Since I would dissolve into a blubbering mess of rage and tears if I wrote about politics this week I will turn…
Continue Reading To Autumn John Keats (1795-1821) Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the…
