Posted On: January 18, 2024
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Kayaking alone can be cool. Living and aging alone can feel more like slow drowning.
As a season, winter brings on more staring, sitting, pondering. So perhaps the squall of loneliness articles appearing all over…
Posted On: December 22, 2023
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This installment of the Snow Art Series is titled Solstice Rosy Sunshine.
Why the (?) in Happy Solstice headline? Well, lotsa reasons, including that the day is DARK, the weather can be frightful, and it…
Posted On: December 8, 2023
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
I stumbled on this pic from a fun week in NYNY in 2015 with my daughter, who was only 12 at the…
Posted On: October 27, 2022
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Extremes are hot these days—as in climate change, political divides, and BreakAway photo exhibits. Please take a glance at the lovely new photo pairing in the carousel above. Today we add another pair of opposites…
Posted On: January 24, 2022
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We all seek light, and often find it in faraway people and places.
Most people have never heard of Thich Nhat Hanh. But for some of us, just knowing about him became life-changing. He died…
Posted On: February 19, 2021
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Pop-up ice art, as sculpted by Mother Winter
Every morning, a storm window greets me with these amazing artworks of frost. The patterns look uncannily similar day to day—so long as the temp and conditions…
Posted On: January 7, 2021
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Deliver us from evil. Amen.
Yesterday was a dark, dark day for the USA. Apparently, co-existing with a deadly disease and a long list of other problems just isn’t enough. It appears that riots and…
Posted On: January 1, 2021
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Rough year, anyone? Even the snow knows…
There will be volumes of verbiage written about this troublesome year. So for now, I’ll try to make no sense of it, and leave that to smarter Thought…
Posted On: July 17, 2020
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“The whole world is at sixes and sevens and why the house hasn’t fallen down about our ears long ago is beyond me.” So says the omniscient maid, Sabrina, in the opening scene of Thornton…
Posted On: June 19, 2020
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My daughter quietly making art in a moment of staycation calm
It’s funny. Most people spend most of their lives answering “How are you?” with the impressive reply, “I’m so busy!” In normal times, we…
