I just read On the Wings of a Hummingbird by my neighbor Susan Mills. This newly published novel tells the story of Petra, a fifteen-year old Guatemalan, raised with great spiritual strength that is tested by poverty and gang violence so great that she risks abduction, rape and murder just walking to school. After her […]
Living in Place
Beating the High Cost of Gas
Riding the Train When I boarded the northbound train in Brattleboro on Friday, gas was approaching $5/gallon, and my ticket cost less than making the 300-mile round-trip in my Prius. When I returned home on Sunday, gas had hit the five-dollar mark. If I calculated the cost of purchasing, registering, insuring and maintaining the car, […]
Ephemerals & Memory
Ephemerals On May Day, Tim and I searched for ephemerals along the banks of the Rock River. An ephemeral is a plant that grows and dies within a few days. I’d seen the mottled leaves of trout lilies spearing through the leaf litter days earlier. On this warm Sunday we found trout lilies blooming […]
This is the Way the Pandemic Ends
It’s just as T. S. Eliot says in his 1925 poem, The Hollow Men, “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper.” And so it is with the COVID-19 pandemic. The newest variant—BA.2—seems to be more transmissible than previous ones, and even less virulent. It comes just as I’m more […]
For Ukraine, For All of Us
This post is dedicated to the Ukrainians fighting for their country’s sovereignty, and for all of us who still have the right to vote and self-determination. Overcoming Despair of Despotism “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and […]
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