Continue Reading Of sheep and peas In truth, today is all about peas, their luminescence, their daintiness, their curlycues and their service to science. The sheep play a…
Continue Reading All is transformed For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen by Jane Hirshfield Back then, what did I know?The names…
Continue Reading Nothing is Clear Leave it to me to choose a title that in itself is easily disproven: it IS clear, that speaking in absolutes soon…
Continue Reading Nothing is Lost I learned a new word yesterday, psychogeography, in the context of thinking and reading about travel writing. The travel ain’t happening, but…
Continue Reading Nothing is Easy I get mail that tells me I make too much use of the bully pulpit and should seduce the reader on an…
Continue Reading Nothing is fixed Feeling demoralized? Acknowledge it. Sad? Allow it. Worried? Accept it. These emotional reactions have a function, just as positive thinking does. They…
Continue Reading The Duty to Protest Here the poem is read. Want to guess when Protest was published? In 1914, in a book by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, titled…
Continue Reading The Rewards of Routine I am not exactly a creature of habit but I do like the contentment that comes from frequent and regular visits to…
Continue Reading The Urge to Display Yesterday was an emotional day. We attended my son’s dissertation defense via Zoom, sad that we could not be there in person…
Continue Reading The Need To Learn When I observe wildflowers, plants and the natural environment around me, I feel joy, a sense of place, being here and being…
