Continue Reading Cherry Blossom Contemplations I should have gone there earlier. When I meandered along the Esplanade last week the peak of the cherry blossoms was clearly…
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….
