I’ve been thinking lately of my life as an obstructed streamlet. As a kid our house adjoined a small woods through which a stream trickled carrying run-off from the surrounding farmland to the small lake where we skated in the winter and might catch a fish or two in the summer. Every year leaves would […]
Staring into space was lovely this morning. The air was cool, the sky blue, the sun brilliant and I was bushed from raking and digging and hauling compost and wrestling with roots and rubbish. It was a relief to stop, lean on the shovel and stare. But tonight it is tiresome. I sit before a […]
Have you ever stared at a Care Label in dismay at all those cryptic symbols–that tidy row of do’s and don’ts, all laid out in code? Every vehicle, appliance, gadget and piece of clothing comes with instructions for its rightful use and care and a profusion of don’ts and warnings for the user unaware: Don’t […]
Hauntingly lonely. Those were the words that came to my mind as we walked in late after dropping our ‘baby’ off to fly away to school. Having dropped her off very early that morning Jim and I had spent a lovely day together, albeit punctuated by glances at the clock and calculations as to where […]
Once-upon-a-humid North Dakota afternoon on a gently sloping coulee bank two young lovers exchanged words that ushered in a whole new life for both of them. Their destinies were joined that day when the young girl responded to the eager young man’s proposal of marriage with the words: “I’d be delighted”. That was thirty years […]