Continue Reading A World growing Cold. We had a dusting of snow this week, lasting not even a day. Coincidentally, I was cleaning out some closets and found…
Continue Reading Thoughts on Change. A friend sent me an essay from the New Yorker this week – I somehow managed to avoid subscribing to the magazine…
Continue Reading Evaporation. Walk with me through a landscape touched by frost, a layer of glistening, crystalline beauty sheathing every blade of grass, leaf and…
Continue Reading Who decides what we remember? In the dark times, will there also be singing?Yes, there will be singing.About the dark times.—Bertolt Brecht I would not be surprised if…
Continue Reading 2025: the Year of the Snake. I went down to Lan Su Chinese Garden last week in anticipation of the Chinese New Year this coming Wednesday. The celebratory…
Continue Reading Helpful Advice. Walk with me, but bring the gloves, on a brilliantly sunny and cold day at the wetlands. Puddles covered with ice, ponds…
Continue Reading Craving Good News. Believe it or not, good news still exists! In fact, marvelous news concerning cravings that lead to, or are part of, addiction….
Continue Reading The Art of Selling Lies Someone once called propaganda the art of selling lies. It’s a catchy summary but obscures the extent to which communication can be…
Continue Reading The Palestinian Exception I don’t sleep very well since the L.A. fires broke out. I have this recurrent thought of “One moment you sit in…
Continue Reading After the Fire. Here they were, salmons “singing in the street,” in Northern morning light that favored gold and blues. Right out of an Auden…
