It was 55 and sunny one day last week. The grass was too soggy to walk our usual loop around the yard, but my husband and I did take a mid-day trip back to check on the beehives. This is the time of year when bees are most likely to starve. Hungry new brood are...
I recently listened as a colleague ticked off a long list of losses. Each loss felt, to me, like an autumn leaf, brown and shriveled, dropping from a tree, from his lips, one by one. I could see the leaves falling, piling at his feet. I could feel loss upon loss...
I do not think that the opposite of imagination is reality. Far from it. The opposite of imagination is cynicism and boredom; they are influences that deny reality (cynicism) or escape it (boredom). They blind us to the beauty of human experience or...
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash If the weather-watchers are correct, we’re due for snow tomorrow and possibly more on Sunday. Snow in March isn’t unusual, but it’s definitely unwelcome. Arriving just as the world starts to sing its wake-up...
Resilience Across the street winter rye, tall and green, shimmers and ripples in the breeze. Heavy rains bend random patches, large swaths flattened like giant deer beds. A thunder storm with wind and rain beats down long rows across the street. ...
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