Continue Reading Intermission I am leaving town a bit earlier than anticipated, so am jumbling to get everything squared for a month-long trip. Yes, I…
Continue Reading Placeholder Soooooo – I was going to write about a book I thought I would have finished reading by now, but life and…
Continue Reading PDX Special Walk with me along the Promenade, along the Willamette river under an ever changing sky (all photographs from yesterday morning). Friendly taggers…
Continue Reading Fungi-Curious. Julie Beeler and Jordan Weiss at the COLUMBIA GORGE MUSEUM October, time for my annual sharing of the recent beauty I found in the woods. I’m clearly not the only one preoccupied with…
Continue Reading Come to me, said the World. I was walking on a dike towards the Columbia river, water levels so low that the geese rested on sand banks in…
Continue Reading Chicken Chatter You’d think when you randomly google “chicken” you’d come up with good news, so direly needed at the end of this week….
Continue Reading How We Remember. “But I have found that where there is a spiritual union with other people, the love one feels for them keeps the…
Continue Reading When Hope is Hard. Kintsugi: The Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru at Portland Japanese Garden From: Kawaranai Sora: Nakinagara Warainagara (The Sky Unchanged: Tears and Smiles) Fall has arrived at Portland Japanese Garden. Yellowing leaves and needles…
Continue Reading Der Erlkönig Beyond the Treeline One of the most amazing pieces of music from the romantic period is a song written by Franz Schubert ((1797-1828), The Erl-King…
