rosemary and time…

  Last year in the Spring I spent a great deal of time digging up the back yard of our house in Nashville. I’d decided that I would finally give gardening a try. Knowing little, knowing nothing and having only Google and the kindness of green thumb friends I dug up my yard; around the… [Read more…]

what you mean to say…

I don’t follow Rick Warren. Frankly I don’t know much about him apart from the fact that he is a pastor of a really large church and has written a number of books that Christians seem to like an awful lot. I don’t know anything about his character or his sense of humor although he… [Read more…]

good government…

Warning: political rant with no redemptive, insightful ending in sight…no call to action…no potential solution. Proceed with caution.   You can’t beat crazy. You just can’t. Crazy will make the news every single time. Crazy will trump truth and facts and all kinds of things. You can’t beat crazy. All sides of the political reality… [Read more…]

metaphors…

No pithy opening here for poetry tuesday. Just Sylvia Plath, because it’s tuesday, because it’s poetry, because she knew a little something about metaphors and life and living…   Metaphors I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s… [Read more…]

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patience as a virtue…

It isn’t ready. Reading through a piece I’ve been hammering away on for the last several months I come to this conclusion. It just isn’t ready. I reach a paragraph in the middle of the piece and break into tears every single time and in that moment all I want to do is show it… [Read more…]

love and marriage and legislation…

It is not long ago that large numbers of people in our country viewed people of color as “less than” human, less than white humans at the very least. It is in our recent past not our ancient history. It is even more recent that the idea of a black person marrying a white person… [Read more…]

living deliberately…

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living… [Read more…]

blindspots

You know what sucks about blind spots? They’re blind spots. I had a little revelation this week, a blind spot brought to my attention. I checked it out with a few people because that’s what I do. I was very careful to make sure I chose people who’d agree with me, people who would affirm… [Read more…]

the burden on my back…

I’m shrinking. Already. It’s not from my bones compacting or the loss of connective tissue. I’m shrinking because of my slumpy slouchy forward reaching neck. My massage therapist and long time friend made a comment not long ago about my “dowager’s hump.” DOWAGER’S HUMP? REALLY? Oy. The condition I have is actually called “kyphosis” and… [Read more…]