Continue Reading For these Streets. Must admit, I felt lousy yesterday. Not sure if I am coming down with the crud or if the regular culprits are…
Continue Reading Transcendental Etude. “Poetry is not a resting on the given, but a questing toward what might otherwise be.” – Adrienne Rich A dear friend sent…
Continue Reading Friday Haul: A serious warning, some good news and cartoons! It’s Friday – and all I have to say is: “Stay away from bagged lettuce!” Seriously, change your habit of purchasing bags…
Continue Reading Voices of Remembering A resolution to mark May 5th, 2025 as National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls passed the…
Continue Reading Back to bashful? By chance I encountered three artists across the last weeks who I was completely unfamiliar with. One lived in the 16th century,…
Continue Reading Sunscreen, fitted shirts and other lifesaving devices. So it turns out that anatomically modern humans (AMH) knew a trick or two that ensured their survival and evolution into Homo…
Continue Reading A Light exists in Spring. A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period –When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroadOn Solitary FieldsThat…
Continue Reading Hereness. There is a woman in my neighborhood who spreads beauty. She lays out blossoms and greenery into flower mandalas at a local…
Continue Reading Your very own Town Crier. Walk with me. That way we can talk and I don’t have to yell “Oyez, oyez, oyez!” like the town criers of…
Continue Reading The Repair of a Torn Civic Fabric. Today I want us to think through the connection between hobbies and Pope Francis. “What on earth,” you mutter, wondering if I…