September 7, 2023

Image:Barbara Ryther Paths Barbara Ryther   Those of us who make a practice of walking on beaches generally choose a particular path. Much as with life, we have our reasons for our choices, based on personality, circumstances or mood of the day, or perhaps habit....

August 24, 2023

Image: Melanie Kyer Small Town Summer Small town summer means blessing: Picking up a box of bruised peaches at the farmer’s market and making jam, then giving a jar to the mechanic down the road who fixed your air conditioning. Small town summer shouldn’t mean a...

August 10th, 2023

MORNING I want to greet the day the way my dog wakes having tucked into the velvet night heavy with surrender   When the silk moon slips through ambient blue to welcome her florid sister and a chorus of birds calls me from dreaming   I want to run to the...