The leaves fall like tears
Raining from the last bright trees
Of the last autumn
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Friday, May 28, 2021
On the Occasion of My Fiftieth Birthday
I have a Birthday coming up in a few weeks. I do not want to be this age. I have not accomplished everything I wanted. But looking back, there is so much light and beauty and love.
This past year I have seen things I never thought I would see, and made choices where every option was a bad decision. I do not think I am better or stronger because of these experiences. I am damaged. I am about to turn fifty and there are strands of moonlight in my hair; but then I have always loved the moon. My family is alive, and I am alive, and my trees are green and beautiful, and taller than last year.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
George Floyd Was Murdered
There are things I need to say. These things seem obvious and rational to me. But I am a white woman, and troubled by the concept of "silence is complicity." So I will speak, although these things have already been said, and said better.
George Floyd was murdered.
This was a particularly horrific crime, but it is one in a long legacy of similar crimes both remembered and forgotten. The black community has a right to their rage and grief. We must listen.
We all have the right to peacefully protest.
Some protests have become violent. That is wrong.
Some peaceful protests have been scattered by local, state, and federal authorities by violent means. That is wrong.
No one is above the law.
We must do better as a society. We must vote. We must value everyone the same. We must be kind and respectful.
George Floyd was murdered.
George Floyd was murdered.
This was a particularly horrific crime, but it is one in a long legacy of similar crimes both remembered and forgotten. The black community has a right to their rage and grief. We must listen.
We all have the right to peacefully protest.
Some protests have become violent. That is wrong.
Some peaceful protests have been scattered by local, state, and federal authorities by violent means. That is wrong.
No one is above the law.
We must do better as a society. We must vote. We must value everyone the same. We must be kind and respectful.
George Floyd was murdered.
Friday, July 12, 2019
Rules
Rules
To be posted outside my house.
1. All small creatures are welcome to shelter in the yard.
2. Please get along peaceably.
3. You may eat all the grass and mosquitoes you like; please bring your friends.
4. Please do not assault the house.
5. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER THE HOUSE.
6. Those of you who are skunks, please do not skunk.
7. Those of you who are not skunks, please do not startle the skunks.
To be posted outside my house.
1. All small creatures are welcome to shelter in the yard.
2. Please get along peaceably.
3. You may eat all the grass and mosquitoes you like; please bring your friends.
4. Please do not assault the house.
5. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER THE HOUSE.
6. Those of you who are skunks, please do not skunk.
7. Those of you who are not skunks, please do not startle the skunks.
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Blink
A few weeks ago my husband Derek and I attended our nephew Benjamin's high school graduation. We were very tired that day because a woodpecker had been attacking our house since early morning. I sat in the stadium in a sleepy daze watching the pre-ceremony videos the class had put together. In the videos many of them wore 2019 t-shirts. I was thinking to myself, if we had done this sort of thing my shirt would have said 1989; and it slowly worked its way into my brain that there were 9's on the end of both dates, and that it has been thirty years since I graduated from high school. I found this surprising; to add to the impression, the girls in the class wore white gowns just as I had.
Blink. Decade. Blink. Decade. Blink. Decade.
The whole day was a bit surreal; here are some random impressions.
The security guard wished me happy Mother's Day (I have no children).
Graduations are always poignant with many emotions, with the consciousness of what you are losing mixed with the excitement of what lies ahead. At least Benjamin's class has social media to easily keep in touch with their friends. It was a bit harder for us.
A really beautiful "hat throw," with white and bright purple hats fluttering like confetti against the dark seats of the arena and the bright light of the floor.
Young women in white gowns bring to mind angels, nurses, spirits, saints.
Hecate is the goddess of magic and of the crossroads.
On the way home, Derek says (loudly, suddenly, without immediate context and to an unspecified audience): "Who doesn't like DuckTales? I will FIGHT you!"
Blink. Decade. Blink. Decade. Blink. Decade.
The whole day was a bit surreal; here are some random impressions.
The security guard wished me happy Mother's Day (I have no children).
Graduations are always poignant with many emotions, with the consciousness of what you are losing mixed with the excitement of what lies ahead. At least Benjamin's class has social media to easily keep in touch with their friends. It was a bit harder for us.
A really beautiful "hat throw," with white and bright purple hats fluttering like confetti against the dark seats of the arena and the bright light of the floor.
Young women in white gowns bring to mind angels, nurses, spirits, saints.
Hecate is the goddess of magic and of the crossroads.
On the way home, Derek says (loudly, suddenly, without immediate context and to an unspecified audience): "Who doesn't like DuckTales? I will FIGHT you!"
Friday, December 29, 2017
How Cold Is It?
#ItsSoCold I took my pet penguin for a walk.
#ItsSoCold my hashtag froze.
#ItsSoCold my snowman is glad he's so fat.
#ItsSoCold my snowman quit.
⛄
#ItsSoCold my hashtag froze.
#ItsSoCold my snowman is glad he's so fat.
#ItsSoCold my snowman quit.
⛄
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Wishes
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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