September 30, 2021

Image: Barbara Kautz On Lake Huron I sit on the deck, basking in the late afternoon sun of a late August day, content to sit and watch the sun’s rays bounce off the lake brilliantly, as if the lake itself were the finest of cut diamonds. My nearest neighbor is a...

September 16, 2021

Image: Nina Bisognani To sail! To fly on water, skimming, soaring Attached to the world by the barest touch A ripple here, a wake there, then gone.   To sail! To feel the wind pushing me towards something No backward looks or hesitation Ever forward, ever faster,...

September 2, 2021

Image: Nina Bisognani Cat Napping While rifling through a desk drawer the other day,I came across a favorite photo of a catNapping in the sun. All stretched out as only cats can be,Curled around the base of a pot of geraniums,Looking blissfully content.Her mouth...

August 19, 2021

Image: Barbara Ryther Memento Mori Memento Mori is latin for “reminder of death.”As a student in school, that was just a quaint academic exercise:Dancing skeletons on medieval etchings,Melting clocks in Dali paintings. Flies on bowls of fruit.All to show mortality....

August 5, 2021

Image: Kathryn Yingst Let’s sit down, you and I, and talk. Here, under the wheeling gulls Overlooking the sea, teeming with life Beneath the expansive summer sky Trivia doesn’t matter. Let’s go deeper.   What has changed in us over this months? What have we...