There’s often gloom outside my windows as I sit here lately, punctuated with storms and downpours. Sun breaks do occur, but mostly I’m grateful for this infernal wet after last year’s droughts and too-close-for-comfort wildfires. And these smudgy skies are good for reflection and planning. Now that the holidays are over I’ve been shoring up […]
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Write a new story in 2021
2020 was a cruel, exhausting, nightmarish, wrung-out, surreal shambles of a year. So much to bear, grieve, and confront, sometimes with heart-hammering fear. So many adjustments to make amid an onslaught of shocking death tolls and Biblical plagues including swarmclouds of locusts. In the West the wildfire damage and scars have brutally changed the landscape […]
Read the rest of this entry »And so 2020 ends…
I hope you have many reasons to celebrate a new year. I hope you have writing projects that challenge you, friends who cheer you, and a pile of thick books that will last through this next season. Thank you to anyone who has stopped by. There’s been heartbreak and upheaval in my life this past […]
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We can live any way we want. People take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience–even of silence–by choice. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting. ~ Annie Dillard, Live Like […]
Read the rest of this entry »“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” ~ Jean-Baptiste Massieu
Never has there been a more important time, year, season to focus on gratitude and extend it whenever possible. Wishing all a day of peace, hope, and thankfulness. Vincent van Gogh – The Harvest – Van Gogh Museum
Read the rest of this entry »From an Editor’s Desk: Follow Their Eyes
With the holidays upon us, I’m especially grateful for all the good things and people in my life, the small joys that bring so much simple pleasure. A walk with a friend, an engrossing novel, spring blooms, autumn leaves, watching seasons change, the first sip of tea in the morning, dinner simmering in the kitchen. […]
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With apologies–an early draft to this article was mistakenly published before it was completed. Updated November 17. Obviously I’m not alone in declaring this a humbling, angst-filled, anxiety-inducing year. Did I mention fattening? Like many millions around the world, I’m following the COVID numbers with growing horror and paranoia. I’ve been wearing a mask and […]
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