Carry a small grape
“From wonder into wonder existence opens.” – Lao Tzu When my older daughter was just a porcelain-skinned baby with ringlet hair, I remember telling my friends Gay and Rosemary I loved Emma so deeply and totally that I actually imagined myself eating her up with a spoon sometimes. Literally. True …
Wear a paper dress
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see—or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.” – Alice Walker First, let me just say on this Mother’s Day that …
Pay attention to synchronicity
My father died at age 53. I know this won’t come as a big surprise if you’ve been reading 37days for a while. But you might not know that today, May 12, is the 26th anniversary of that awful day in 1980. Sometimes it passes wordlessly, but it is always …
Bloglet blues…
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Dress up for Ed McMahon
“If you really want something in this life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery numbers.” –Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons Today’s the day! The big day! The day when it all happens! Today, this very one! I’m dressed and ready. I’ve been fully …
Ride the train
“In complex trains of thought, signs are indispensable.” – George H. Lewes From this day forward, I will never travel anywhere that I can’t go by train. There is a languidness to trains that soothes me and makes me slow down, gives me pause, rolls time around in my head …
Eat slowly and thank the chef
This one is for Philip. “I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don’t require as much cooking.” – Carrie Snow My friend Lucy- who- creates- amazing- works- of- art- in- food- and- everyday- life- and- who- might- be- compared- to- Martha- Stewart- except- for- all- those- …
Blow bubbles
“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” – Aeschylus We are deep into bubbles at my house. Blowing them, taking baths in them, catching them, looking at the colors in them, …
Just help them get started
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” – Eric Hoffer There is a moment in every mother’s life that is a source of deep, dark dread. A moment so terrible to consider that we dare not contemplate its possibility, a …
