I groped around in the dark searching for my ringing cell phone. It had to be Vic who was resting downstairs. I turned on a low light and made my way to his side. “What do you need, love?” I asked. “I can’t breathe,” he said. “I need to go to the hospital.” This man […]
I’m excited about the spark in this week’s writing class! A food spark gives me delicious ideas. But first, I have to take out these ten monarch caterpillar babies from the large box Elaine gave me. I’ll look at them while my grandson Kaden is sleeping. OMG, they are so tiny! Thursday: Kaden went to […]
With morning dew on the grass and the sun rising over the hill, I wander through the milkweed patch choosing the healthiest young plants to feed the Monarch caterpillars. I find Monarch eggs and tiny caterpillars as I gather plants so I clip the leaf or plant, put it in my basket, and bring it […]
October 1994 Dearest E, While walking up the stairs tonight I was forcefully struck by what a precious gift life is, how good it all is and how much our love for each other is the source […]
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, “Go to the Limits of Your Longing,” The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, 1905 (trans. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy) Let Everything Happen to You Surrender to life, planned and unplanned, joy and sorrow, […]
I wake up gently, yawn, and bury my head in warm blankets. “You should get up and meditate,” an inner voice suggests, ever so sweetly. She has many ideas, most beginning with you should…. I ignore her which is rare, but it’s time for a day without a list. I roll on my side, Willow’s […]
I love the promise of eggs laid by songbirds in nesting boxes on my land. I should have learned by now that it’s foolish to get attached. Life is fragile and precarious, especially this cool wet spring. There were five blue eggs in a nesting box and then five thriving hatchlings when the Bluebird mama […]