Here in Vermont we began the day with high winds and snow—whiteout blizzard conditions. It felt a lot like the news of the day. Until the beginning of the year…
When we were growing up, my brother and I shared a bedroom, and on nights when we couldn’t leave the excitement of the day behind—and most of our days then…
Who needs all this misery and pain? Having just spent a month with covid, I certainly don’t. But I know rolling over and going back to sleep, while it did…
This has been a week seemingly of change unlike anything we’ve seen, perhaps ever. And it is important to remember that even in the horror of these many unknown changes,…
This race for the presidency has reached a point where I need to be very clear with friends and family and any who reads this. What happened on Sunday night…
Here in Vermont the inevitable annual changes in our natural world are well underway. The sun, of course, drives them all with less solar energy reaching us due to shorter…
The view from here last night of the partial lunar eclipse was beautiful. My photographs of same, not so beautiful! The web of life is always much better, of course,…
I’ve long appreciated how complex life is. One has only to consider the Monarch butterfly’s life—not just complex but impossibly so. Scientists have unravelled nearly all of that story but…
I’ve not watched TV news for years but even my daily reading of several newspapers make it clear the world continues to overflow with self-destructive turmoil, leaving many with lives…
There are not enough pieces left to assemble anything useful, anything that resembles a memory. What is there is just enough to see myself long ago with dirty tears running…
Still Learning To See 