2019-05-19 20:21
If time isn’t up, then it is out of joint. I couldn’t sleep last night. Just past midnight, I woke up and couldn’t fall asleep again. At 1:30, I went downstairs to write on… Read More
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2019-05-17 17:28
My mother has survived viral encephalitis. But it’s not really my mother who has survived. It’s my m/other. It’s someone else. It’s the person left behind in the wake… Read More
2019-04-30 19:05
Sometimes my breathing becomes so shallow, I contemplate what it would be like just to stop. What would it be like if I just stopped? And what is it like when I remind myself to breathe deep… Read More
2019-04-28 22:00
My mother is ill. Very ill. Over the years, she has risen back up to survive. Through a number of silent heart attacks and a massive heart attack, through knee replacements, through sufferi… Read More
2019-04-17 18:17
The break in posting has been just that: a pause. Stopping to be present these past weeks, I found so many presences, not just one. I found feelings and emotions. I felt sunlight. And I foun… Read More
2019-03-14 14:51
It started one Ash Wednesday.
How you are raised determines so much. This story is not about blame. Parents do the best they can with the tools they are given and learn how to use. My par… Read More
2019-03-05 14:36
Not in nature, in the stillness of the woods. Not while at the oceanside cottage I’ve visited in Maine. Not in meditation.
Today I experienced presence, real presence, while folding… Read More
2019-03-04 13:30
We value wholeness. We value perfection. We visualize these as one and the same. We value whatever the eyes and mind choose to believe is visually appealing. We look for coherency. We impose… Read More
2019-03-03 18:38
I never said I was sorry. But I am. It may be too late; I’m
almost 45, and you will be 49 this year. But I still owe you an apology.
I ruined your birthday. I don’t rememb… Read More
2019-03-03 16:28
I had a moment of enlightenment today. Why I deign to call it “enlightenment,” I’m not sure. It seems quite self-evident. The enlightenment is this: The reason why so many… Read More
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