February 21, 2015 / Terrifying Splendor in the Heavens
Did you see this fantastical sight in the night sky around 6:30 EST on Friday, February 20? Just past dusk, I was finishing my half-hour of meditation in my little office here at home. The gong sounded on my iphone, signaling the half hour, and I opened my eyes and sat quietly for a minute or so,… Read More
February 15, 2015 / Snowing, Again
(images I made of snowflakes on my pink and black mitten) It’s snowing, again. This bit wasn’t even in the forecast when I looked at it very early this morning. The flakes are large, and gently flying sideways. Or, when they get near my window, they float up. My husband and I just… Read More
January 31, 2015 / Snowstorm
This time, we all got plenty of warning. It was going to be a humdinger, the forecasters said. There was even talk of The Great Blizzard of ’78. Friday afternoon, after listening for a while to the dire talk about the three feet due on the weekend, my husband suggested we do our… Read More
January 27, 2015 / At Breakfast, Virtually
A friend recently forwarded to me a set of cartoons showing folks attending to their screens while in situations one might describe as social in some way. The taglines were funny, joking about how people were interacting with the virtual instead of the real. Now, mostly I am distressed about… Read More
January 09, 2015 / African Circle
From the African Circle journal of June 2001: Suddenly, with no warning, as we walk in Zambia this morning, I am stunned to feel that I have come straight into a place of my childhood, a thicket of low curving-over shrubs, making a secret tiny glen, where with my little friend Chloe I used to… Read More
December 29, 2014 / A Christmas Day Walk
Years ago, when both my Mother and my younger daughter were still living, my husband and I would find a fine outdoor place to go walking with them on Christmas Day. Once, it was by the ocean; I have pictures of my darling Mother, who went about 5’ 1”, well-bundled up in one of my… Read More
December 18, 2014 / Driving Away the Dark
Here in the Northern Hemisphere we are fast approaching the shortest day. I have been keeping track for a couple of weeks. Right now, on December 18, following what had been our steady progress into the dark, though stuck for the past three days at 9 hours, 5 minutes of daylight, today we are… Read More
December 09, 2014 / Faithful in New Haven
Hello, person in New Haven, Connecticut, and how I wonder who you are. (But don’t tell me!) My web designer fixed me up with a Google service which allows me to see things about activity on my website, including, if I click enough times, the cities my visitors live in (or at least from… Read More
December 09, 2014 / Persistence
Thanksgiving week we went to New York City and from there to New Jersey to spend the holiday with our older daughter and her family. In The City (I suppose there is another city, but), I introduced my husband to the pleasures of walking The High Line, the elevated linear park reclaimed from an… Read More
December 08, 2014 / Not For Children
A mother to her young child, as we started down the ramp to Ground Zero, impatience and anxiety in her voice, “It’s a different kind of museum.” Indeed. The worst was the object labeled “Composite”. It had its own separate place, somewhat apart from the other… Read More