Monthly Archives: September 2012

Accidentally I caught the moon while sitting in a chaise near noon and looking at the summer sky.   T’was hiding near some fluffy clouds and I was glad I was allowed to see it,  though I didn’t try.   … Continue reading →

There were several architects and engineers gathered on the sand bar building sand castles. They made joyful sounds — laughter and shouting. They ranged in age from  three to six — a mix of boys and girls — all there … Continue reading →

I  was walking along a concrete  path. Here and there there were cracks. Step on a crack and you’ll break your mother’s back. I believed it to be true once upon a time when I was six.   So I … Continue reading →

I trust Hana found the rattle tasted good – was told she also shook it – listened to the sound it made. She wrote to me the other day with some help from her mother telling me that she was … Continue reading →

When I turned over in the middle of the night and held her hand  — the hand dear to me for more than forty years I recalled my neighbor telling me just hours before that when she visited her husband … Continue reading →

I don’t presume to understand the arguments the politicians make. I’m easily persuaded toward the latest “take” and then will switch my point of view — will give another pitch my due. I’ve tried to read and read to grasp … Continue reading →

I saw the dawn wipe star light from the sky — not all at once but here and there, at first — and finally everywhere.   There was some resistance but at the sun’s insistence the task was finally done.

At that moment when dawn began its daily journey and offerered the possibility of light — when all the stars had disappeared I saw a crescent moon up there hanging above bright jupiter. And then a jet stream moved between … Continue reading →

The eastern sky is just beginning to ease the darkness from the sky — the sky, for me, now over the waters whose lapping against the sandy shore was a lullaby last night as I went to sleep and are … Continue reading →

It is happening more these days — your opened laptop revealing news: another friend has died.   The world you love is shrinking — shrinking and address deleting is a thing you do — it has become a habit.   … Continue reading →