Category: Essays

  • Interdependent . . . The Art of Being Human. . . .

      What I have read and heard of independence makes me think  I must negate a life of work which I thought meaningful but not in the currency of the day.  It seems we lost our sense of interdependency and community and our sense of belonging to the human race.  It is evidenced daily by…

  • Hone the Diamond, Light the Candle. . . .Vote!

      What I need to say are words that will convey the importance of the privilege we will let pass if we do not get people to their feet and lower the lever on the machine that will give them a future.  Yet. How not to give away the chance to make a difference as…

  • The Garden Gnome. . . .

      The Garden Gnome. . . Already Fall has sent her messages in the form of cold, rainy days that speak of Fisherman hats and boxy bonnets and warm jackets.  And it would not be remiss to have warm mittens in the pockets of those jackets just in case.  These past weeks have spoken of…

  • Imagine. . .the godmen. . . .

      Not many understand the full meaning of unconditional love.  By being kind and thoughtful, loving and caring, can these be given without ulterior motive?  To many these things given unconditionally speak of a people eater.  To some this loving seems conditional because by loving so you intentionally will demand some kind of response.  This…

  • It Will Be Said. . . .

        It will be said. . . . (It will be said that I talk to myself.  If this is the case, I challenge all to find words for what I do and ask that you find words to describe and do  likewise.  Perhaps you will find not words in our language but a…

  • Life Anywhere Is Our Destiny. . . .

      Life Anywhere Is Our Destiny. . . It is sweet breathing the elixir of rarified air and to be alive anywhere always is our destiny.  Life is everlasting.  We seem to forget that in the midst of making a living.  It is necessary knowledge in making a life. The Master said suffer the little…

  • Sometimes From a Distance. . . .

      Sometimes From a Distance. . . I recently told my readers that I would post the fisherman’s hat which I knit with thick and burly yarn.  Aging plays havoc with arthritic fingers and new ways have to be found to do the things I once found great pleasure in doing.  Or told myself that…

  • The Great Ahhhhman. . . . .

    Your Answers Will Be Sufficient. . . . The path to understanding the other is begun by understanding ourselves.  When we begin the inward path to self knowledge, we can then view ourselves with compassion and then view others with compassion.  All knowledge is applicable to the self. It is not worthy of the name…

  • Two Best Buddies. . .

    Two Best Buddies. . . I was at the sink in our home in Florida when grandson Josh came in with this bear and I gasped!  When I found my voice I asked if he was staying.  The answer was we don’t know if he fits.  Fits whom, what or where?  After a few skirmishes, …

  • A World Made Manifest. . . .

      If it was a certainty that world creation was a fact, what kind of world would you create?  If you knew for a fact that your acts upon days upon days created just such a world, how would you change your behavior?  And what would be the attributes you would enhance that world with?…