"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” Bill Watterson, American cartoonist It is morning and it is raining, the puddles outside the window looking more like September than high summer. The same weather system that is keeping parts of America bone dry has sent a conveyor… Continue reading A not-thirsty land
Category: spiritual life
A sense of place
“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” Wendell Berry, American author All this week, I have been mentally revisiting a place that I hold sacred. The Indiana Dunes is the place of my childhood, the place where I fell in love, the place that appears without fail in any… Continue reading A sense of place
Smallering and smallering
"I meant no harm. I most truly did not. But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got." Dr. Seuss, "The Lorax" The house-predecessor who designed our garden had a sense for dramatic sweeps of color. Right now, the backyard is glowing orange with Stella d'Oro lilies, trumpet vine and daisies whose blooms are… Continue reading Smallering and smallering
Bottom of the bird cage
“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” Louisa May Alcott, American author, "Little Men" Writing for a newspaper was an excellent start to a career I… Continue reading Bottom of the bird cage
Looking for a beach read?
"The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think." Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author, "Gift from the Sea" Mrs. Lindbergh is so, so right. A beach is a place to simply be. Which makes it ironic that my first work of fiction could be classified as a "beach read." Those… Continue reading Looking for a beach read?
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