Small round snowflakes float on air Bouncing, Seuss-like, here… and there. All the while the blue sky beams And I dream of yawns replacing... Read More
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… on the who outside the bathroom door
Late this morning, I was in the bathroom with, I’m ashamed to say, my phone, when I saw the screen light up with a... Read More
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… on who transcended who
In the midst of a holiday season that sprinkled warmth and joy with pandemical particulates in each of our peripheral visions… A text. Two... Read More
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… on yours, mine, and ours
I have said (well, typed), more than once on these pages, that no one – not me or you or that guy over there... Read More
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… on appreciating the whole show
A couple of weeks ago, just after late afternoon rain, I got a text from my friend from across the cove. It was a... Read More
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… on the lovings from, and of, a dawg
Every afternoon, usually between 2:00 and 3:00, JoHn heads into town to pick up a coffee and have a chat with the folks who... Read More
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… on kicking off summ-ah
As you can see, green is happening. Also there is some purply-pink in the form of a certain rhododendron who lives just outside the... Read More
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… on bird food and wonders
This morning, I texted a photo of these oranges to a friend and included the label, “Bird food”. I knew she’d get it. We’ve... Read More
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… on that elusive ‘next to godliness’ thing
This post was going to be professionally illustrated. I drew the amoeba, and then the red circle with a line through it. Then I... Read More
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… on the hound’s way
Yesterday I wandered ’round the house And I wept I wept for those so certain That they are terrified I wept for those so... Read More
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… on the coming spring
The timing of spring is relative in midcoast Maine. While others anticipate the days that fall in and around the twenty-first of March, we... Read More
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… on anticipation (a.k.a., faith)
In the first week of the President’s request for us to stay at home for fifteen days to ‘flatten the curve’, I made the... Read More