“The routine can be the ticket to the transcendent.” – Andy Laats The Age of Robots is before us, each prediction bolder than the last. Robots will build all of our stuff. They will farm all of our land. They will protect us from enemies. They will bring minerals from space to earth. […]
Every good New Englander knows, when you start to slide – whether ice or mud or slippery rock – the key to survival is to ease up, regain your footing, and then proceed with caution, maybe by another route. Oh, but it’s hard, when every fiber of your being is saying, squeeze tighter! Turn sharply! […]
In these Alice in Wonderland times, I have been trying to listen more to those whose life ways are tuned beyond a single news cycle. This has me turning often to the wisdom of Wendell Berry. Dear friends, may we love someone who does not deserve it. May we plant sequoias. May we hear the […]
When things are heavy, I tend to walk and walk and walk. Eventually, instead of being lost in thought, I am lost in feeling. On lucky days, I get a little glimmer of knowing. And once in a blue moon, to bring the point home, there’s an added spark, like the two angel wing […]
I was zipping down the road a few days back when the person in front of me came to an inexplicable stop, far from any signs or lights. Once I slowed myself, I saw a whole gaggle of geese crossing the road. They took their sweet time, too – padding backwards and forwards and ‘round […]
Friends, it was a windy week, literally and figuratively, and this poem by E.E. Cummings helped me to catch my breath. May we dive for dreams. May we trust our hearts. dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the […]
Music expresses that which cannot be said. – Victor Hugo The solution to so many impossible things is music. Just in these last few days, I have wept hearing the chorus from a Broadway musical. I have been comforted by a little kid singing Three Little Birds on the internet. I have […]
I was tossing and turning last week, curtains drawn, when a text message alerted me to the full moon outside. It shone blindingly bright all through the night, fading only as it set behind the pinky clouds of dawn. The next day my attention was directed to a guide giving an expert description of […]
What a total delight to find a word that uniquely expresses an exact and complex concept. Schadenfreude, for example. Or drizzle. Tsundoku is one of my favorite words in Japanese. It describes a big pile of books that have not been read. It’s not hoarding, or collecting… it starts with the clear intention to read, […]
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” – Emerson On Monday a friend helped me see a higher self when I was cloudy. On Tuesday a friend taught me something I did not know. On Wednesday a friend asked after my loved ones. On Thursday […]