Two downy woodpeckers visit the deck in the morning. The female fat with eggs sits on the railing. The male flits between feeder and mate, feeder and mate, seed by seed feeding a future not yet nested. It is coded within whether we’re winged or flat-footed, this care across time. How much we humans have […]
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Solstice: Sun Standing Still What pulls the reluctant sun up on a winter solstice morning? Determination? Longing? Habit? Love? Ritual? Need? An ancient question no longer asked now that we know nothing moves the sun. It is we who spin and circle at a 23.5 degree angle turning us (in the north) away from the […]
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It happens every day, and sometimes I am genuinely grateful for it. A question surfaces in conversation and then, quick as a blink, someone pulls out a smart phone, finger types the question and announces the answer. The name of a movie or the year it was released; the population of Memphis or Manila; the […]
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