Continue Reading Reminder If you happen to get hectic around holiday preparations, desperately scrambling for gifts, trying to figure out how to maneuver family gatherings…
Continue Reading Hope is a discipline Hope doesn’t preclude feeling sadness or fear or anger or any other emotion that makes total sense. Hope isn’t an emotion, you…
Continue Reading Hierarchies I’ve never been sold on much of Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, and not for lack of trying, from sellers and buyer alike. She…
Continue Reading Feathers to the Rescue. Today is all about counterbalancing my reading recommendations (heavy, in every meaning of the word) with something visually enchanting (light, in every…
Continue Reading C. G. Jung in the Wild West “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou…
Continue Reading Science Denial It was infectious. The laughter of a tiny Russian grandmother, loud, unabashed, unceasing, first made me smile, then laugh as well. I…
Continue Reading Vaccination Refusal In this country, partisanship, age and level of education are predictors of who refuses to get a vaccine against Covid-19 in all…
Continue Reading Elective Blindness. “Magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.” – Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1979) There I was, making…
Continue Reading May Their Memory Be For A Blessing My mother’s Jahrzeit returns this weekend for the 38. time, she did not even reach 60 years of age. Neither did another,…
Continue Reading Historic Parallels Imagine a flood of young men who are uprooted, lack perspective, unable to find employment, frustrated by promises of improvement that never…
