Other-Worldly Encounters with a Feral Cat
She sauntered into our yard about a month ago, this young orange tabby with a white bib. Her gaze passed …
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Capturing the Spirit of Our Kindred Cousins
Sculptor Nichola Theakston works in bronze and ceramics to capture the spirit of creatures found in her native Wales and …
Beauty the Brave, the Exemplary, Bursting Open
What is it about the fragile, fleeting, and flagrant beauty of flowers that can so break a heart? I wrote …
A Deep-Dive Through Time and Space
By now you’ve probably seen the stunning new images from the Webb Space Telescope, which takes us 13 billion years …
Celebrating Ten Years of Blogging
When I created this blog ten years ago I named it “Living on the Edge of the Wild.” I saw …
Time Away, and Back Again. Kinda.
I took two months away from blogging, most of May and all of June. Some of that time was finishing …
Immersed in My Art, Finally
Please Do Not Disturb: That’s how I’ve felt these past few months, and even more so these past few weeks, …
Wonder & Worship, Poems for Easter
Primary Wonder, by Denise Levertov Days pass when I forget the mystery.Problems insoluble and problems offeringtheir own ignored solutionsjostle for …
Never Say “Never Again” Again, Unless We stop It This Time, Now
If we say “never again” while doing nothing to stop the atrocities going on in Ukraine, then we are lying …
Faith Ringgold’s Story-Telling Tapestries
The richness of Faith Ringgold’s textured artwork dazzles me. She had been ignore for so long in the artworld, but …
