The morning after the United States Capitol in DC was breached by pro-Trumpian rioters, I woke up as if shaken by a bad dream. To be clear, this is a repeated nightmare that has been going on in this country for centuries and one that has been increasingly widespread in its visibility and violence in […]
+ Read MoreHave you found yourself resisting recently? In other words, fighting against, or refusing to accept any number of the unacceptable conditions of our times? Let’s face it. There are countless pressures, problems and prejudices today worthy of our resistance. More and more of us are resisting, each in our own ways, and doing so with […]
+ Read MoreTwo 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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