driving on the left.

I have been in Ireland for just a week, but in the way of being away I feel like it has been much longer. It is the stepping out of...

AWAY.

We go away to get closer to ourselves. Outside our regular lines of time, the dimensions of our days are able to shift and we can refit...

After Thanksgiving.

This morning in the quiet after Thanksgiving week I listened to an interview with Wendell Berry and Bill Moyers. A few years ago I had...

Time Honored.

Time Honored Yesterday I spent the day with a friend. Not a carved out hour for lunch, or a coffee between meetings, but a whole day....

the wonder of memory Yesterday I was playing zoo with my three year old grandson and he stopped in the midst of placing a yak in the...

Late Fall Morning Walk.

This morning the sun was brilliant and while the ground was still soaked with yesterday’s all day rain the clear bright sky beckoned me...

“Stories are geography”.

“Stories are geography” – from Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby If I make a map of you I would trace the lines on your face to...

At the desk……..

Funny, how the fall colors of the trees seem so much richer against the graying sky. It rained all morning and I was glad for a reason to...

History is relayed through the perspective of the historian. The older the history the more rare it is to find a direct telling of it,...

There is a myth of time.

There is a myth of time, of seasons progressing, of things moving forward. Take today. Over the years I have become convinced that toward...

just a bit discordant.

M. described it perfectly when she said “you are living your life just one inch to the side of where you want to be. ”  One moment that...