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Remember to Remember
From 6:30 to 7:00 am I joined a meditation on-line with Richard Rohr’s Center for Contemplation. It began with a Mary Oliver prose poem that I had not read, Of the Empire. She wrote it in 2008 in response to the question, how will future generations remember us? It...
Roots and Songs
Poet John Haines (and no Haines is not named after him, but that would be something, wouldn't it? An Alaskan town named after an Alaskan poet) wrote, "Good poems come from roots." So do good lives. I have been reading poems and essays in the morning instead of looking...
Happy Tuesday
Happy Tuesday, as my friend Dr. Marnie would say. I am on the self-improvement plan to prepare my heart and head (and I suppose body too) for the coming six weeks or so of final edits on my new book (or at least I hope they will be final...) I did the January no wine...
Sunday’s Thought
John Straley writes that "Winter hardens us. These are its terms. It does not manifest its own hardness inside us, but stiffens the stuff we are already made of." I suppose you can take that two ways, hard like iron or death, or as I prefer, like the hardening off of...
Seeing and Believing.
On our daily walks with the dogs my friend and I talk about all kinds of things-- politics to be sure, and the weather, and life and death (she is a hospice administrator and I write obits) and mindfulness and drinking wine ( we did some fasting for four weeks) and...
Sunday’s Thoughts
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches “Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God...
What to do with Winter
Winter after the holidays, January thru March, is real winter, and also the best time to get sick, so the timing was right for my wicked sore throat and cold. I gave myself the prescription Doc Feldman would have- bed rest. He is retired and lives down south now, in...