Continue Reading Dreams (3) I thought we’d exit the week with a different variety of dreams: the daylight version, not nocturnal ones. Dreams Langston Hughes – 1902-1967 Hold fast to…
Continue Reading Dreams (2) “Years ago, a poet friend showed me a photo of her cat, taken on the spur of the moment, with a cigarette…
Continue Reading Dreams (1) Admittedly it’s not a random sample, but many of those who I talk to or correspond with these days relate how much…
Continue Reading Easter Rebus I did not see the Easter bunny, maybe the chased it away. But walking at a ‘s pace on Tuesday, my…
Continue Reading Virtual Louvre When I learned that the Louvre now has an internet platform on which you can peruse 480.000 or so objects of art,…
Continue Reading Masking Up Something curious and creative today: a German artist’s work, created long before Covid-19 entered our lives, that is focussed on masks. I…
Continue Reading Plagues Be Gone As we enter Passover I am fondly remembering the glee with which the kids recited the 10 plagues at the annual Seder…
Continue Reading French Revolution meet my Pear Tree I spend a lot of hours these days in an easy chair facing a budding pear tree nestled in a tall bamboo…
Continue Reading First Signs of Spring Spring is officially on the calendar and sure enough, the first messengers, trilliums, are popping up left and right in the woods….
Continue Reading Of Kites and Camels I thought today is a good day to express my appreciation – love having you all around. Seriously. It is also a good…