Category Archives: REALITY

Lush with last night’s thunderstorms this Independence Day hangs heavy with dark clouds and windless sound broken by the joyful bugling of the catbird, chickadee and cardinal.  As if the booming of the guns has won their free flight crossings … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yesterday was spent in gardening, sneaking in to iron, fix Jim’s computer, do some mending, and play some games.  Hoed and weeded, fed and watered, stopped to reflect on time.  How it is spent–today was good; productive, peaceful, unstressed. I … Continue reading →

My father-in-law spoke very little, was not a man for small talk.  The sixteen years of Monday night dinners I came to call "The Longest Hour."  But he would get going on the war–the big one–WWII.  His face would light … Continue reading → Continue reading →

They come because he was one of their own, a friend from decades ago they hadn’t seen for many years, a comrade from the War.  Some wheel in with walkers, some with knees too stiff to bend and kneel they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With one father newly gone, and the other spinning in his grave, I think of time and how important it is to spend it well. After two years, and in the middle of preparing for another sad goodbye, the lawyers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There is a shifting of the earth, the slightest change in placement in time as waterlogged from rain, it hesitates in its rotation and slips the slightest bit backward on its axis. And no one’s noticed except the cricket somewhere … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My father-in-law died a little over an hour ago.  It is strange to be there at the very moment that life transforms into death.  I stood by his side, combing my fingers through his hair, silent.  They say the hearing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The rain is nurturing, noisy, numbing to the soul that seeks the sun. Continue reading →

I lift my eyes up to the vista of sky, the emptiness yet promise it holds and pray for four.  One gone, and peace is what I want him given.  To the second, the same, for he is almost there. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Since I’m biting my tongue and holding back on the personal entries lately, I won’t post about the big new CVS in town (the one that put our little local deli out of business) not having frozen pizza, only one … Continue reading → Continue reading →