This time last week I was in Austin, Texas, visiting artful friends, meeting new trees and dogs. A good time was had by all and I was (and always am)…
The Storming Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06alaSSKGEs It's been a wild few days. Outward, ever outward. Shining toward others, ever deserving. Our oldest 'small' is returned to the midwest from Aspen's heights. He is beginning a…
Back To Center
"To Paint is to Love Again." ~Henry Miller We are home from Maine, landlocked once again to Ohio. Ohio is not without its beauty to be sure. There have been…
view from the point
"We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different…
A very splendid day
"We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order their birth and the time of their death. Between times, we have a duty." ~Terry Pratchett (via…
Distant Horizons
I've been a little obsessed with horizons lately, what with my youngest finishing high school and heading off into adulthood with such headstrong strength and brilliance while my little self heads…
A Need for Slowness
It's a gloriously frosty morning down here in this Springvalley of ours. The cold seems to have settled in for the season and it all feels a bit early, though…
Dive
"What will today bring? I hold my breath, dive down. Come to the surface, gasping, empty handed. I catch my breath, then dive again. Maybe this time. I reach…
The mores and the lesses of things
It is that time in the wheel of the year when many of us are called to be a bit pensive about things. To consider the seasons that have…
A lacy November dusting
We awoke this morning to the gift of a magical dusting of snow, courtesy of a storm system nearby that will likely reek havoc elsewhere. But for us, it transformed…