Continue Reading Getting off anti-depressants. Walk with me, into a fall landscape, the air filled with the trills of migrating sandhill cranes. We won’t get to see…
Continue Reading Apples and Honey. Shanah tovah umetukah – may the New Year be sweet. Given the current state of the world I even settle for tolerable….
Continue Reading A Way Forwards. Oregon Historical Society presents: Street Roots - Providing Income Opportunities and Independent Journalism as Portland’s Street Paper Since 1999. “You’ll be my first sale of the day!,” a woman in a wheelchair suggested to me, holding up a bundle of Street…
Continue Reading Status Symbol, anyone? Today you will be spared from politics. So much to work through that I decided against it all, just saying. You will…
Continue Reading Tired I am so tired of waiting,Aren’t you,For the world to become goodAnd beautiful and kind?Let us take a knifeAnd cut the world…
Continue Reading Left in the Dust. Want to walk with me? Meet me about 30 miles east of San Francisco, at the Alamo Oaks Trail, a small hilly…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Some Thoughts on Heritage. When I brought my then boyfriend back to Germany for the first time, my father lovingly created a sight-seeing itinerary for a…
Continue Reading Reshuffling the Natural World. Vögel, höret die Signale! I don’t know about you, but when I go to aquariums or zoos there are a lot of conflicted feelings – from…
Continue Reading Don’t zero in on the Bees. Too hot to hike. Too hot even for a walk around the corner. So I photograph in the garden, bees and bumblebees…
Continue Reading Il Tempo Fermo. I have been absolutely hooked on an album by Fabrizio Cucco, called Tempo Fermo. It unfolds slowly, getting more powerful with each…
