Look in the square
“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.” – Publilius Syrus When I was in junior high and high school, I was an artist, taking drawing and painting classes and expecting my parents to hang my oversized and pensive and hormonal portraits of Monarch butterflies over the …
Aim for horizons
"Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that." – Erich HellerLife has become Technicolor ever since that house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, but even with that red-shoed inspiration, I still think we humans see most things in polarized terms. (Or perhaps that’s true …
A Test of the Emergency Response System
It’s only a test, a Typepad technology test, an uploading-of-the-images-test. UPDATE: Typepad reports a glitch in photo uploading to domains with numbers in them…hopefully they will have it fixed soon. In the meantime, enjoy exercising your imagination and where you see "image not available," insert your own ideal illustration…
An RSS Confession
I have a confession to make. What I know about the technology of publishing a blog would fit into this thimble. I’ve read "RSS for Dummies" articles, I’ve spent countless hours scouring the "help" section of Typepad, and it still takes me hours to figure out how to create new …
Just wave
“Charity sees the need, not the cause.” – German proverb "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother …
Name your pom-poms
“You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” – French proverb In my hometown, there is a hatchery. They produce little baby chicks and slaughter bigger ones. When I was growing up, it was called Breeden’s Poultry and Hatchery, named after the family that owned …
Signal your turns
“People change and forget to tell each other.” – Lillian Hellman My sweet, old Ford Bronco II has 172,000 miles of history in it, a broken driver’s side door that has to be opened from the outside, a passenger window stuck in one position not quite all the way up …
37 days challenge
"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." – Joan Didion This blog began with a sense of urgency that centered around what I would do if I only had 37 …
Draw circles
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays –"Circles” Let’s imagine that all learning takes place in a …
Wear a candle on your head
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” -WH Auden, 1907 A few years ago one December, as I prepared to leave for a business trip, my husband John (aka Kurt Vonnegut’s …
