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Jul 31
2 min

Roads Once Taken

I am drawn to curving roads that appear to have no clear beginning or end but rest in the landscape they travel through. Years ago we dro...

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Jul 22
1 min

Mid Summer Still

It is mid-summer and already the ground is scattered with leaves. Each time I walk the path around the pond I count more of them. At firs...

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Jun 30
2 min

Swimming in the Confluence

It's been over a month since I last posted. Like everyone I know I am factoring time in a different way. It's like the formula for speci...

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May 19
4 min

The Innocence of February

Just a season ago we stood around with friends at the maple syrup camp boiling sap tapped from the trees surrounding us. It was chilly, a...

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Apr 28
2 min

A spring like no other

We are in the midst of a long beautiful spring in southern Indiana. The trees are mostly past their flowerings, pear and peach, dogwood a...

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Apr 8
2 min

Why is this day different?

There will be no gathering at the Seder table this year though the daffodils are past their bloom and the peonies are rising out of the s...

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Apr 6
1 min

Book Review

So pleased to have this review by writer and artist Sue Swartz. Thanks as well to editor Jennie Cohen. Stay well!

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Mar 31
2 min

Becoming an Astronaut

I woke up this morning and realized I am an astronaut. I was sent to this new world with a young four legged creature and a male human t...

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Feb 21
2 min

A new poem

I used to trust in the rule of law Staying on your side of the two lane road when a car is coming at you assuring you both the room to pa...

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Dec 17, 2019
2 min

As winter begins…

I have to confess that I love the long, lingering dusks of early winter. The way the lengthening darkness makes the short spurts of brigh...

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Oct 29, 2019
2 min

Different Roads

“We all make our ways the best we can through the world. Each of us is given a different road to travel." Chava, In the Time of L...

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Oct 13, 2019
1 min

In the time of changing seasons

First fall morning frost and the water rises off the pond changing into air. Even though the trees are still mostly green there is a glow...

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Oct 8, 2019
2 min

Chava's Remembrance

- a passage from In the Time of Leaving- I was twelve the first time I fasted for Yom Kippur. It was the thirst I most remember. The way ...

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