I’m thinking that some of our best poetry comes to us by means of the music we listen to. There is an admonition in the Baha’i writings: “Take heed, however, lest listening [to music] should cause you to overstep the bounds of propriety and dignity.” (The Kitáb-i-Aqdas), http://www.bahai.org/r/028875513 Nothing provokes my thinking quite like listening … Continue reading Music as a ladder for the soul
Spirituality
Spirituality While Listening to “Diveniri” by Ludovico Einaudi (Audio link, in case WordPress refuses to include ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGvZCbcE0Q When my husband and I visited the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa Israel a long time ago we came home with a lot of fragrant dried rose petals from the Shrine of Baha'u'llah. Those treasures are in a … Continue reading Spirituality
A particular fishing story
A deep sea squiggle drawing of mine Don't go fishing if you're the only girl on an all guy boat... My dad loved fishing. Any spring, summer or fall day he had off you’d spot him heading across the meadow to Pudding Brook, or taking a short drive to the Atlantic Ocean. Fishing was his … Continue reading A particular fishing story
Dancing with Big D
================== Oh, the ironies of living! A couple of weeks after I wrote this a test ordered by my oncologist informed me that I now have metastatic breast cancer. Six years to the month after I thought I'd whomped the beast with surgery and radiation. Still, the basics are the same so here's the post. … Continue reading Dancing with Big D
Stardust and smoke
Note: This piece was written well over a year ago during historic wildfires. Before the almost historic floods of the following winter. For some reason I wrote the whole thing, about two very different kinds of trees to be found in my patch of central California. Trees that have their impacts on people all over … Continue reading Stardust and smoke
Broken windows, $5.50 gas and qué será
Backyard sunflowers, in yellow and blue In our little neck of the woods — in which “woods” consists of thousands of acres of almond, pistachio, walnut, orange varieties, all sorts of pit fruit and apple trees and so on — Paco (son-in-law) and I yesterday took a trip to the vet to refill Elf the … Continue reading Broken windows, $5.50 gas and qué será
On the way to a COVID 19 vaccination
I got my first coronavirus vaccination on Thursday, and have been doing well. There’s a sore arm and some brain fog, fading two days later and that's it. A late wild sunflower we picked up from a home construction site soon after the entire plant had been ripped out. The Zuni River Otter fetish joined … Continue reading On the way to a COVID 19 vaccination
A StoryCorps tale
In February of 2020 we learned that the StoryCorps booth would be coming to the Fresno area in California during the summer months. My daughter, Jericha Rendon, put in a request for an appointment with the idea that she would like to interview me (Emily Lee) regarding my experiences growing up and living on with … Continue reading A StoryCorps tale
What comes next, last 12 months?
Twelve months and counting it is since a less-than-stellar year began in an individually rough manner for me, starting in February 2020. A big downshift in the way I live my life, marginally because of Covid 19 and the social chaos of racial justice and political upheavals began the first week of February. Much of this … Continue reading What comes next, last 12 months?
On apocalyptic wildfires
This began as a Facebook post before it decided to make an appearance on my slumbering blog. I've been tracking the Creek Fire in Fresno/Madera Counties, California for one week now, as it's seventy miles east of our home, up in the Sierra Madres between the Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Also... peaceful music to … Continue reading On apocalyptic wildfires
Rising Over the Smoke 