So. This morning, puppy Shadow and I stopped into our nearby Petco, to replenish his 16-year-old body with daily vitamins. Or is he 17? Possibly. He’s old. Likely as old as I am, at 81
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My Post-Thanksgiving Vigil . . .
For the first time in many many years, I hosted a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner, inviting all and sundry on my mail list who had nowhere else to go. Nine people total. We had a wonderful time. An
FIRST MORNING, from my bedroom window . . .
Correction; From my dirty bedroom window . . . long dreamed vision, looping me back to all those magical years in a 20-foot diameter yurt in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this one a 12-foot yurt, f
“The spectre of nuclear destruction is the twisted, macabre pathological externalization of humanity’s buried creativity.”
The title of this post is taken from a column I wrote for Sagewoman magazine, back in 1997. I place this column here, as a pdf, along with two others, also from Sagewoman in the late 1990s.
POST-FLU: Peering into Past and Present
I woke up this morning and knew it was time to clean the floor of all the strewn, jumbled boxes of medicinals that I had hastily, feverishly pulled from their high shelves in the midd
For those who cannot sleep; for those who have trouble staying awake . . .
If you’re like me, then you have trouble falling asleep unless you are listening to “the news” of some kind. (Weird, I know.) My mind has gotten used to the drone of voices
UP FROM UNDER . . .
See last post. Just an FYI: We in Green Acres Village have endured an intense interpersonal drama this past week which has finally resolved itself. Very difficult. Very instructive! Luckily, during
ME AND MY SHADOW: Griffy Lake Trail, September, Early Morning
It’s September, so I’m no longer much concerned about ticks. Time to return to Griffy Lake trail, ten minutes north of Bloomington, InDiana. I put the orange vest on him, not to warn hu
A Day in the Life of Earthlings on Earth Day 2022
This early morning, on walk with puppy Shadow, we decided to walk west, through the IU campus, and during that one hour passed by probably 40 people, only two of them masked, and only two more, bot