Sep 19, 2021 | Reflections
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,...
Sep 2, 2021 | Reflections
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...
Aug 19, 2021 | Reflections
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....
Aug 4, 2021 | Reflections
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...
Jul 22, 2021 | Reflections
The Painting Rememberwhen the hours of summerran together like colors—endless blue, grass green, dandelion—and feelingthe breath of every wildand beautiful thingbrush against our skin,a visible and invisible gold? Do you rememberbeing sweetly devouredby mystery? The...
Jul 8, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani Millions of years ago God gave us colorful, scented flowers. Bees, the vegetarian descendants of predatory wasps, appeared shortly afterward. Up to 85% of food crops for humans and numerous crops that feed cattle and other animals depend on...