Rainy Monday dog-walking daylight-savings blues OR Good News for People Who Love Bad News
{horn intro} This small town and the darkness of an artificial evening can hold space for a middle-aged woman walking her dog and scream-crying [and dancing] to the soundtrack of her adultification. For 48 minutes and 50 seconds, I am transported to the beginnings of figuring out how to be alive in this world. And…
On Being Religious OR Things that Thinking People Should Know Not to Talk About in Mixed Company
I started this blog five years ago yesterday [What?!? Where does the time go? We’ve had like four apocalypses since then. Where have I found the time?] and in those five years I have only written two posts on it that I have felt met criteria for me to tag them #religion. I think it…
Hummingbird Musings OR Why can’t we see that the whole world is a bountiful garden?
For the last month or so the Monardas, or bee balms, have been blooming at our urban homestead. We have five different cultivars sprinkled throughout our food forest, pollinator and herb gardens ranging in color from lilac through magenta to cherry red and in height from about 12 inches to 24. The leaves and flowers…
Coping with Happiness OR Yeah, sometimes I write poems
There are some days where you can feel the turn of the earth and know exactly where you are in time. The still fullness of life suddenly all around you. Now. Just a moment ago the leaves were small, the stalks short, the flowers buds, everything only promise and then – out of nowhere -…
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