Maybe we need different places for different phases of our lives. Maybe cherished places remain alive inside us even if we have to move on—our attachment to the earth not thinned, but widened.
~Deborah Tall , “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place” ~
I experience and seek this contrast of autonomy with connection in my relationships. At the heart of my decision to have a place to live apart from my father’s is this need to have a space and life of my own with its own momentum and direction. When I’m at my father’s, I’m in Daddy’s…
Sing along, now, everybody, all together: “Getting to know you, Getting to feel free and easy When I am with you, Getting to know what to say” That’s the essence of the “Getting to Know You” blogging meme which Isabella Mori of Change Therapy has just tagged me to participate in. Poinsetta, December-child’s flower DECEMBER…
All week I’ve been thinking about and talking about Bill Moyers Journal March 28, 2008 look at “an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s.” There is a transcript and podcast and background material here you’ll want to…
I first encountered Boxing Day when I lived in Botswana, a former British Colony. If you’d like to do a little quick research into this custom, here are two good sites. Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other members of the Commonwealth of…
After dinner (that’s the mid-day meal in the country, folks) on the back eating porch, my father rested his eyes gazing outdoors to the garden and the hemlock tree. “I planted that tree 60 years ago,” Pop said, “It’s grown some. I can remember the day I planted it. We had some hemlocks for sale,…
Click here to view YouTube video of Obama’s powerful speech on race and politics in America: “A More Perfect Union.” Click here to read entire text of Obama’s speech on race on politics in America delivered in Philadelphia, March 18, 2008. In my view, this speech will go down in history as a classic speech…
I experience and seek this contrast of autonomy with connection in my relationships. At the heart of my decision to have a place to live apart from my father’s is this need to have a space and life of my own with its own momentum and direction. When I’m at my father’s, I’m in Daddy’s…
Sing along, now, everybody, all together: “Getting to know you, Getting to feel free and easy When I am with you, Getting to know what to say” That’s the essence of the “Getting to Know You” blogging meme which Isabella Mori of Change Therapy has just tagged me to participate in. Poinsetta, December-child’s flower DECEMBER…
All week I’ve been thinking about and talking about Bill Moyers Journal March 28, 2008 look at “an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s.” There is a transcript and podcast and background material here you’ll want to…
I first encountered Boxing Day when I lived in Botswana, a former British Colony. If you’d like to do a little quick research into this custom, here are two good sites. Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other members of the Commonwealth of…
After dinner (that’s the mid-day meal in the country, folks) on the back eating porch, my father rested his eyes gazing outdoors to the garden and the hemlock tree. “I planted that tree 60 years ago,” Pop said, “It’s grown some. I can remember the day I planted it. We had some hemlocks for sale,…
Click here to view YouTube video of Obama’s powerful speech on race and politics in America: “A More Perfect Union.” Click here to read entire text of Obama’s speech on race on politics in America delivered in Philadelphia, March 18, 2008. In my view, this speech will go down in history as a classic speech…
I experience and seek this contrast of autonomy with connection in my relationships. At the heart of my decision to have a place to live apart from my father’s is this need to have a space and life of my own with its own momentum and direction. When I’m at my father’s, I’m in Daddy’s…
Sing along, now, everybody, all together: “Getting to know you, Getting to feel free and easy When I am with you, Getting to know what to say” That’s the essence of the “Getting to Know You” blogging meme which Isabella Mori of Change Therapy has just tagged me to participate in. Poinsetta, December-child’s flower DECEMBER…
All week I’ve been thinking about and talking about Bill Moyers Journal March 28, 2008 look at “an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s.” There is a transcript and podcast and background material here you’ll want to…
I first encountered Boxing Day when I lived in Botswana, a former British Colony. If you’d like to do a little quick research into this custom, here are two good sites. Boxing Day is a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other members of the Commonwealth of…
After dinner (that’s the mid-day meal in the country, folks) on the back eating porch, my father rested his eyes gazing outdoors to the garden and the hemlock tree. “I planted that tree 60 years ago,” Pop said, “It’s grown some. I can remember the day I planted it. We had some hemlocks for sale,…
Click here to view YouTube video of Obama’s powerful speech on race and politics in America: “A More Perfect Union.” Click here to read entire text of Obama’s speech on race on politics in America delivered in Philadelphia, March 18, 2008. In my view, this speech will go down in history as a classic speech…