"Racism, one of the most baneful and persistent evils, is a major barrier to peace. Its practice perpetrates too outrageous a violation of the dignity of human beings to be countenanced under any pretext.” ~The Promise of World Peace, 1985 Results of America’s long simmering, latent, at times overt, racism fill the news and the … Continue reading The racism in me
Category: Life happenings
Transiting & lemon squeezing
Moving involves a fair amount of self re-creation and may bring into play the re-discovery of potentials we once glimpsed, only to let slip away. You think you are a country person, and here you are, by your own choice, in a city. You used to roll your badass power wheelchair around quiet village streets, … Continue reading Transiting & lemon squeezing
Boxed in in balmy California
We arrived at our destination in northern California a few days ago, frazzled by two days and a night of steady driving — me with complaining back and numb leg, questions as to why I was doing this buzzing ever louder within my grasshopper brain. Sleep was something that occurred in brief snatches for days on … Continue reading Boxed in in balmy California
Edge-of-my-seat hours to pass
Today’s quite a day. I'll get to the bit about me, but first, in the greater world scientific advances and very much good energy, many prayers are needed. The news brings a report of bacteria that resist all antibiotics, including those last ditch ones that desperate doctors use to try to stop such monster killers … Continue reading Edge-of-my-seat hours to pass
In which I learn the respect of gravity
Hurry up and wait. That’s an expression I grew up with, and lately it’s been coming back to me. With a vengeance. Today I was intending to be writing from south of San Francisco, dogs in the park, bonsai relocated to a second floor condo balcony. My daughter and another roommate nearby. Green, green, everywhere! … Continue reading In which I learn the respect of gravity
Drifting by a desert ocean
Hate is a poison Love is a remedy Singing out like the sweetest of melodies Hope is a ghost in the deepest of memories Stronger than ten of me Fear is the enemy In the dark and it creeps like a shark In the coldest sea In the deepest part but Hope is the beat … Continue reading Drifting by a desert ocean
On getting close to stardust
If April showers bring May flowers there should be plenty of wild food around here for hummingbirds when I bid adios to New Mexico in a few weeks. Today has been soft, grey and way more humid than what I’m accustomed to. 87%, up from a period of 9% (daytime). Which all makes me dreamy, … Continue reading On getting close to stardust
The glad and the sad of moving
Yesterday, in my usual backyard spot for musing over what goes on in life, a tiny hummingbird buzzed me. “Where is my own special food?” he asked. “Alas, my friend,” I replied rather sadly, “This will be a season of changes for you and me. I will soon be gone from here, and I don’t … Continue reading The glad and the sad of moving
Seagulls and love letters
Love is a lantern Shining up like coins in a fountain Hope is a tree sitting on a mountain where the grass don’t grow There’s a sad old sea but my love is an island Wild and free like the hills in the highlands Hope is a breeze that brings me back to dry land … Continue reading Seagulls and love letters
Me and my house
So here be I on Saint Paddy’s Day, part Irish somewhere, laughing and sniffing by turns, in the midst of accepting an offer to buy my house. If this offer doesn’t work out, soon enough there’ll be another. There is much that could go right... and wrong... in the weeks ahead, but should this man … Continue reading Me and my house
Rising Over the Smoke 