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collective nouns

I met a conspiracy of ring-tailed lemurs on my way to the post office. If there were a collective noun of you, what would it be?


keeping on

all those years ago our eyes and our hearts met over the chasm the chasm of years life experience and perspective we yoked ourselves together with joy and purpose and set out to have a life together  we hit a Read more…


color play

Any day with dyeing in it is a celebration.


someone shaped my life today

As a child, I was good at running away from my problems. I was a scaredy cat, and I ran like a rabbit when anything frightened me.  Sometimes, I would also hide like a mouse, if the threat was an Read more…


summer sleigh bells

summer sleigh bellsa chorus of cricketsin the jasmine night


the zen of a baby

Holding a baby reminds me to be completely present. There’s nothing like a pre-verbal child to pull me back into my body, to remind me to be silently present, and to fill my mind and heart with all the beauty Read more…


all too short a lease

It’s late August and hot, and I’m already looking forward to summer. This summer has been as light and cheerful as wet cement.  Spring and early summer were late, and we never got the long, warm June/July days with the Read more…


“not at all,” she chirped

she wore a hawk at her bosompink feathers in her earsdid she think she was a bird?


prosaic

August started out bad and continued not-so-great.  The sheriffs found the body of a not-quite-23-year-old man whose mother has been my friend for 30 years. I watched this young man grow up. My elder children played with his elder brothers, Read more…


home stretch

A lace Faroese shawl that was causing me anxiety suddenly enters the (long yet) home stretch.  I fretted that I’d run out of yarn and/or end up with a shawl that was less capacious than I hoped. The yarn shop Read more…