The old saying ...the older I get the less I know.    I go about the day thinking how better put, right?  I have it handled and then I am thrown a curve and realize I don’t have it handled at all.  Take the plumbing.  It works fine and then it doesn’t and one goes through a whole … [Read more...]

Chaos has a place.   In all our travels, did we recognize the possibility that mayhem teaches something?  So I sit in my adirondack chair, contemplating the possibility.  I consider that  I missed something in the reality called my life -- that maybe chaos has a place and for … [Read more...]

Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.  ~Ellis Peters   Every year, at this particular time, I fall in love all over again with the garden.   I get giddy like a little kid discovering a whole other world.  Everything looks new, different even, better than … [Read more...]

Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon I knew Ronald James MacIndoe only a short time.   He was part of the MacIndoe clan in which I married.  Our interaction was brief by yearly and decade standards, but Ron’s presence struck a chord in my heart and he touched … [Read more...]

I never knew Jim’s late wife, Sheila.  Except in memories shared by him.  Many memories actually from almost twenty five years shared as husband and wife.  I entered Jim’s life eight months after colon cancer claimed Sheila’s life.  From her diagnosis to her death, time raced … [Read more...]

I call it the Merlin splat.  Jim lays down quietly on the couch to watch TV and then all of a sudden a 40 pound dog leaps on to his chest – splat – and says love me!  Just like that.  He did that to me once.   I now sit upright.  There is something about Merlin that makes you … [Read more...]

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.  Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.  ~Anaïs Nin   I am no different than the … [Read more...]

Wind can be a powerful metaphor.  I watch it now as a thunderstorm gains strength.  Trees sway in its wake.  I see a certain flexibility in the act.  The tree does not break as I would think it would amid such strength. It seems to bend willingly to the force of the wind, never … [Read more...]

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color? -- Georgia O'Keeffe  I don’t know what it is about a flower.  Its color?  Its shape? … [Read more...]

Okay, I admit it. We have more dogs than we should. But what’s the alternative? None. Our animals needed homes. They found us. We found them. It was fate. We make it work. Thank God for Minerva, the housekeeper that comes every other week. Without her, we would be buried in a … [Read more...]