From Pete the Cat: It’s All Good
One of the joys of grandparenting is revisiting stories I loves to read my own children and sharing them with …
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Life’s Sweet Longing for Itself
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through …
Michelangelo’s Pieta & Saint Peter’s Basilica
I have always been drawn to and moved by images of Michelangelo’s Pieta, his sculpture of the Mother Mary holding …
Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie
I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …
Letters From Beyond the Grave on Memorial Day
While neither of these poems have anything in particular to do with remembering those who have given their lives to …
Astonished, Opened at Last
Fallen in Love by David Whyte That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and …
What Makes this Photo So Fascinating?
What makes a photograph great? What draws us to look again and again? What is it we see that fascinates …
On a Quick Walk to the Mailbox
After so much rain this year on the central coast of California, the hillsides around our home are green and …
Poem & Paintings, A Song
The sun does not shine on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, …
A Symphony in Blue and Gold
I know I’ve written about this before, my love affair with the colors blue and gold, how they play so …
