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  • Juggling Time

    How did it get to be so late so soon? Dr. Seuss Today,I feel as disjointed as this installation by Jonathan Saiz. I have been away from home for at least part of the last five days. This morning, I faced what seemed like an impossible job. I had a planner filled with tasks I…

  • Unpacking Life’s Baggage

    I know this is bad for me. I just don’t realize it. Barbara Shermund When I first heard this quote by New Yorker cartoonist, Barbara Shermund, I immediately understood what she meant about something being a bad idea and plowing ahead regardless of intuition. It struck a chord in me, as it highlighted a common…

  • Embracing Patience

    Church of the Annunciation at the Chronicles of Georgia monument Tbilisi, Georgia I hate waiting for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am not punctual myself, I know. But I do like punctuality in others. Oscar Wilde My son took the photo of the church, while visiting Georgia. I sympathize with the dog.…

  • Influence

    I believe that, more than anything else, the grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps us from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout…

  • Limitations

    Arvada, Colorado Kite Festival I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience…

  • A New Day

    Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson…

  • Acceptance

    The older I get the more I believe the greatest kindness is acceptance. Christina Baker Kline I have a love-hate relationship with the tree shading our balcony. Every spring its buds burst into brilliant green leaves. Soon the tree blossoms into fragrant white flowers, snowing tiny petals unto our patio furniture for days. This creates…

  • Reflections on Aging

    I don’t believe in aging. I believe in altering one’s aspect to the sun. Virginia Woolf I am approaching another birthday and reflecting on how rapidly years disappear. We eventually arrive where we were headed from the beginning. Aging is inevitable. The conundrum of aging came onto the horizon, once again, while attending a Neighborhood…

  • A Note of Appreciation

    Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to you as well. Voltaire This morning, I spent an hour attending a neighborhood meeting with the police from our district. It was a casual gathering at a community bagel shop. An opportunity to meet local officers and express both gratitude and…