The Well of Not Knowing: Until the Next Time

Last evening I was sitting in the shade under big maple branches. There was a lovely breeze floating through them, leaves dancing above me. I was thinking about how to…

Friday Musing: What the Sky Is Teaching Me

There are spectacularly gorgeous patterns of all kinds in our lives. There are also the ones that want keep us tethered, that keep us going back even when it is…

Friday Musing: A Companion to Not Knowing

I am looking out my living room window to the clear sky, clear outlines of the thousands of leaves on the big tree, clear curvy posts on the little balcony…

Friday Musing

Several weeks ago now, returning a lampshade, I was taken with the overhead light display in the store, every inch of the ceiling holding a different fixture. While the owner…

The Well of Not Knowing

Not too long before March 2020, I was browsing a local bookstore, a favorite haunt. Every so often it feels a book pushes itself a bit off the shelf so…

Forever Lights of Friends

Yesterday I learned of the passing of a beloved colleague and friend of many years, though it has been some time since we were together. Early onset of Alzheimer’s altered…