Former newspaper reporter and editor, teacher, information specialist, photographer, generalist, lifelong learner, longtime online journaler.
I spent many years in a state of exile from home, and part of the reason was that I didn’t have a home. I had a birthplace, as well as a place where vacation dreams unfolded in my youth, and a place I imagined would one day be home, but no place where I could, as Scott…
It is late at night and I’m tired, but I want to record some thoughts I’ve been mulling over lately. They deal with the subject of memory. I’ve been thinking a lot about that word and all that it means. It is freighted with so many layers and contexts of meaning.
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
Beverly Sills
I remember years ago when I was getting ready to travel across the country for the first time. I was excited, and I was nervous. The car had been carefully packed…
Saturday was the kind of day in the country I long for, but rarely experience. There was this mysterious convergence of feelings and sensations while in the car driving, windows down, fresh air blowing in. You know those nice reveries and daydreams you have in summer sometimes? Maybe at the beach, or…
Quiet revelation: a spiritual encounter on a winter beach
There was something very strange and exhilarating about the beach this past Sunday. It was just a day or so after a winter storm that brought rare sleet and snow to our area, a time of colliding weather systems. The wind had been picking up all morning, and by…