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Sunday’s Thought
May I live this day compassionate of heart, clear in word, gracious in awareness, courageous in thought-- John O'Donohue It’s pretty quiet in the cabin. The only sounds are the soothing waves meeting the shore and Trixie. I hear her shifting on the rug upstairs. My...
Practice
Can I tell you how good it felt to have a houseful this past holiday weekend, and how I'm a little anxious about writing to you about it because I'm the Writer Laureate now and what if I make a mistake? There's a lot of pressure to at least spell correctly, and at...
After the Rain
After turning off a local Facebook thread with a shout one more time over the current leadership's insistence that places like the pool, museum and library need to make money and pay for their own way, and almost tossing the iPad out the door into the rain, there...
Sunday’s Thought
"Do you smell the fragrance of berry bushes in spring, the fragrance of summer's wet soil, the fragrance of fall sockeye becoming older in the creek? Everything on our fragrant scrap of earth knows when the time is right to make its move." - Ernestine Hayes, The Tao...
Awe and Wonder
On the radio Jerry Lee Lewis is singing "You Are My Sunshine" and Tom, the volunteer DJ just said, we have to "make our own sunshine" until that "golden orb" that's up there somewhere returns. April was so warm and sunny, that I guess May decided to make up for it....
One Thing I Know
When an old friend dies, the best thing to do is to go play with young friends, preferably very young friends, and if you are really lucky, they will be your grandchildren. Happy dogs are good for the heart too, And doughnuts. Don't forget doughnuts....
Goodbye to Betty
It has been a hard few weeks, as my friend Betty was dying and then did, and we had a funeral. I was going to write something short and smart, but I can’t just yet, so instead, I hope you forgive me if I share the entire eulogy (and this kind of odd photo a friend...