Feb 11, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Solitude Solitude, when it arrives uninvited, brings with it doubt and loneliness.It creates time to dwell on what we do not have, and what we cannot do.It talks about our shortcomings and reminds us of our weaknesses.It gets inside our heads and...
Feb 3, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani Sea Change This round earth on which we live changes every day. Fall turns to winter to spring and then sometimes we discover a bit more winter before the leaves, in their gloriously new green, finally herald spring. The color of the Japanese...
Jan 26, 2021 | Reflections
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Jan 21, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani I am grateful for every simple and necessary thing: souls with open hearts and listening ears, both human and creature-kind. The achingly beautiful stories of this earth, told in a million, quiet ways: an egg, hatched; how dusk settles like a...
Jan 14, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Melanie Kyer Cooking Lessons I love to cook and bake, especially at the holidays. I am often using tried and true recipes, or maybe no recipe at all, just improvising by how the chili tastes, or how the dough “feels.” Sometimes, though, it is a new recipe or...
Jan 7, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther and Nina Bisognani Reflecting on 2020 We are leaving the old year and with it many things we are probably happy to leave behind,but there...