-For those who dwell within Tucked between the pages was a birthday card from Mort, who apparently missed my party in 1998 but was thoughtful enough to give me a book of poetry celebrating grandparenthood. Taller than me, older than me, more experienced in the world than me, Mort was kind enough to let me […]
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Tucked Between the Pages
Posted in Friendship, Poetry, Reminiscences on September 19, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Have Mercy
Posted in Adolescents/Teenagers, Reminiscences on June 8, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
My son got invited over to a girl’s house. First time. According to the girl’s Dad, they talked and laughed the whole afternoon. A dazzlingly bright, warm Seattle day, a month before Seattle ever gets bright, sunny warm days, and these two holed up in her bedroom (door open, of course).
The Reluctant Gardener
Posted in Family, Reminiscences, Seasons, Tulips on March 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
My tulips are about to bloom again. This will be their third year. I have spent much of the fall and winter wondering, again, if anything is happening to the dormant bulbs. Did I cut the flowers down correctly? Will any come back? Am I supposed to do something with them? I’ve simply left them […]
Truth or Dare
Posted in Love, Marriage, Personal Growth, Relationships, Reminiscences, Young Love, Youth on January 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Back when I was (more) awkward about relationships and sexuality, back at the time when I was, perhaps it’s more accurate to say, first awkward about relationships and sexuality, there was Truth or Dare. Answer a sadistic question designed to reveal your most private insecurities, inexperience, and unrequited crushes; or, preserve your tattered and inadequate […]
Straddling Two Worlds
Posted in Emotions/Inner World, Enlightenment, Existential, Reminiscences on December 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve heard that enlightenment comes from a form of detachment – the ability to go through life experiencing relationships, meals, sleep, work, love, devotion, prayer – any activity – with the capacity to feel it, live it, and let it go. No attachments – not to meaning, not to particular feelings, not to suffering. No […]