I will never forget this restaurant. My partner, Joyce, and I were in Provincetown, one of our favorite places to vacation. We were driving on Rt. 6A after an afternoon in Wellfleet, and we were hungry. We passed a restaurant in North Truro that we’d seen countless times. It was…

This may be the hardest time to surrender, which may also make it the most important time. — My biggest issue is trying to convince myself that surrender doesn’t equal resignation. “Your Resignation is Not Accepted.” After “lazy,” “resigned” was the most scorned word/state of being to my mother’s side of the family. …

The lizard, Slow-limbed, Slides across the warm desert floor. Sand massages her belly, Sun sinks through her scales. She remember “Where,” But not “Why?” This is safety. This is happiness. Like sun and warm, Safety doesn’t last. The lizard’s belly throbs With the echo of pounding pawsteps That turn the sand Into a broad, flat…

Develop wisdom to keep occupied — I voluntarily went into isolation before it became mandatory in my state, and I thought it wouldn’t be a problem. I work at home; I am solitary by nature, and I had cats. I would read more, meditate more, have phone dates, and practice positive thinking. What could go wrong? …

Let me count the ways. — Now that I have more time than ever to write, inspiration has stopped visiting. Maybe it’s distancing itself from me, or maybe I’m doing the distancing. I finally managed to coax it into proximity by making a list of all the things that hamper my writing. I will not proofread and correct a first draft while I’m writing it. Why didn’t I start…

Some choices from a lifetime of music loving On day two million of lockdown, shared with two cats, Zoom chats, countless phone calls, and walking around and thinking about cleaning the house and remembering that I already did that, I grasped the meaning of a classic Sixties novel, Been Down…

Books to Inspire I have many reasons for loving my cats. A big one these days is that they don’t know about Covid-19. That means they don’t talk about it, worry about it, or let it in any way affect their serenity. Like all animals, they are teachers. I picked…

Read your way to balance. I understand that some people are reading dystopian and/or apocalyptic novels and watching movies of those genre. It would seem that watching CNN could provide the same level of horror and fear, but I’ll freely admit that fiction is strange. …

Trust the divine wisdom that’s always available. — As I restore my connection to Divine wisdom and love in the current crisis, I’ve been reviewing the path that has brought me to that restoration. I grew up on Bible stories, and a lot of them had very dramatic incidents, especially when God (whom I envisioned in my childhood…