Symphony of Spring
Today is Good Friday, and Easter is just around the corner — or Passover, or the Rites of Spring — or something else, depending on your cultural or religious inclination. In any case, all around it’s hopping and popping with life, mating, blooming, blossoming, glorious color and sound. Happily the local weather is cooperating, and...
Blooming and Encouragement
…these two topics intertwine in my heart and soul as Spring Equinox approaches… a time of rebirth, growth, blossoming… And I want to share two links with you, to TED talks that touched me deeply, and speak of the aliveness, the vitality, the absolute awesomeness of our potential… Ron Finley is a guerilla gardener...
Evening the Odds
This is the title of an article in the New Yorker from last year. (I’m always behind in my reading, but I keep the issues because I love the cartoons and selecting a few article of interest. We don’t actually subscribe, but get the copies from a friend, months later. That works well as many of...
Jim Thorpe — notes on a rainy day!
Someone/thing out/up there is definitely looking after us — including of course all of you with good wishes, and many tips and research. Our winds have been mostly favorable. Weather has been perfect, including the fact that it’s raining cats and dogs today, the day we wanted/needed/decided to take our rest day. And help has...
My Dance with Pain
Since I wrote about the aftermath of the slip and fall on ice with my granddaughter Lilly while visiting snowy Austria in January (Pain and Gain), I feel as though I have been dancing with pain — trying out and learning many different steps. It seems hard to believe that it’s been just a few...
