this just in!
Here’s what’s been on my mind lately. If you want to read older posts or ones on a particular topic, scroll to the calendar or tag cloud at the bottom of this page (which may be under construction, so please stay tuned). Enjoy!
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on “grounding”
There’s a spot in the land behind my house where I have created a little bit of “pause.” A visual clue to the fact that “someone (probably human) was here.” It’s four pine cones, back ends together and each tip pointing to one of the four directions. I laid the…
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on the value of the tooth fairy
I came across an article on Axios.com this morning, “Tooth fairy payouts drop to lowest rate in years”. First off, I never realized there was a “market” for lost baby teeth. Secondly, am I supposed to feel like the Tooth Fairy short-changed my child for offering only a single dollar…
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on bullshit
It’s strange, isn’t it, how other people can sometimes see us more clearly than we see ourselves? Something I often think about—and when I do, it makes me kind of sad inside—is how sometimes other people can see way more capability or brilliance or medicine (one’s unique combination of gifts,…
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soapbox
Ugh. I need a moment to rant. Can people just express themselves without needing to paint everyone with the same brush? For what it’s worth, I happen to be a US citizen—because that’s where I landed in space and time—and there are times when I definitely don’t agree with everything…
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hibernation
A few weeks ago, Bear crossed my path—literally. I was running errands, driving down a road that cuts through a college campus. All of a sudden, a black bear dashed out of the woods to my left and bounded across the street. I slowed the car as a second black…
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embers
I understand the despair. And I see and feel the fear, too. And I also feel like the fear is there to distract us, like all the things society throws out there to numb us and paralyze us. Instead of letting us be ourselves and celebrate all the things that…
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on the solstice and time
Today is the shortest “day” of the year, the moment when Sun shows themself above the Earth’s horizon for the least amount of time. Earth tilts herself away from the Sun the farthest, as if the two are holding hands in a heavenly dance. Sun swings Earth around and Earth…
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beginning
It’s a rainy day during the last full week of November, four days before the new moon. I’m writing on my laptop at the desk in my bedroom, a carry-over of my work-from-home days during the COVID lockdown. It’s now my “writing nook.” I’ve been working on setting up this…