My Lately: Book Launch, Reviews, & Backyard Bliss
Things have been crazy around here this summer, getting ready to launch my debut novel, as well as visits with …
Category Archives: Nature
A Poet & Artist, Making the Unknown Known
What precipitates the creative process? For poet Mary Oliver, it’s the need to step over “the edge” into something vague …
A Song from a Dream and Rousseau’s Painting
My dreams have always been enticingly rich and evocative. Often it’s as if I’m watching an elaborate film in gorgeous …
Re-Awakened to a World of Wonder
The whole purpose of life, as I see it, this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the …
Is the Universe a Gift or a Prayer Answered?
I’m sharing some poetry by Paul Wittenberger that struck me with their beauty and depth and the questions they raise …
Tending Beauty in an Uncertain World
Like many of you, I struggle to balance myself in this uncertain world where the rule of law and so …
Nothing But Miracles in the Backyard & Beyond
This spring as I’m walking around the yard, capturing all the beauty I see on film, I’m reminded of Walt …
Once Upon a Time in America, Two Poems
At a time when we are all striving toward some optimism because the future looks so dark, I almost hate …
I Know Nothing But Miracles
Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle?As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …
