Drives and Hikes
The habit of Sunday drives that rose out of the depth of the shutdown, has expanded as I slowly make my masked way back into the world around me.
Read MoreDisappearing
In order for a thing to disappear, it first must have appeared.
Read MoreAnd Still We Count
This pandemic has turned our attention, individually and collectively, to death.
Read MoreSunday Drives
Driving and hiking seem to fit well together in springtime in the mountains.
Read MoreSunday Drives
We drove and we hiked.
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We drove south today.
Read MoreSunday Drives
We drove west and then south to see the Camas Prairie, also known as the Weippe Prairie.
Read MoreSunday Drives
Each Saturday and Sunday we are getting in the car and heading into the countryside.
Read MoreA Hypochondriac in a Pandemic
I am waking up. No alarm clock set or needed and still I am opening my eyes before 6AM.
Read MorePurgatory: A Place of Longing
We are three weeks now, sheltering in place.
Read MoreRescuing Each Other
We are all crippled. We carry the scars of the battles we have fought.
Read MoreSun Salutation
This spring morning is bitter cold
Read MoreWinter Morning Prayer
Leave me on this earth as long as possible, for I fear I have come late to the immensity…
Read MoreI Pray Now On My Knees
I pray now, on my knees, like when I was a child at my grandmother’s home.
Read MoreWaiting to Walk on Through to the Other Side.
I’m at home, hunkered down, trying to make, and then stick to, some kind of schedule.
Read MoreDementia and a Pandemic
Life is drawing in on itself. I can feel it.
Read MoreThe Resistance
Of course, most of you immediately think of WWII, or the 60’s, or Star Wars, or maybe even what might be required of us in the near future, but today I’m focused on the force which rises against me in almost all my efforts at self-improvement, against reaching my goals, against the work of the better angels of my nature…so to speak.
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