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Not being familiar with text-speak, I have just now learned that IRL means: In Real Life; as opposed, I guess, to being onscreen. Funny, all… Read More »Real Things

I’ve heard the word “apocalypse” a lot recently. Not surprising, actually, as 2020 gave us its fair share of disasters: fires, floods, despair, destruction, earthquakes,… Read More »An Unveiling

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: a day to celebrate and give thanks for the life and ministry of a great American. Twelve years… Read More »Time to Mourn, Time to Dance

Christmas Day has come and gone. Scenes of a stable sheltering a young mother who cradles an infant no longer appear in store windows or… Read More »Pieta

A book of poems sits next to my place at our breakfast table. Every morning I choose one poem at random to start my day,… Read More »Hanging on by a Thread

According to the Christian calendar, Advent begins next Sunday.  Advent is a time of waiting: waiting for a birth, waiting for the return of light… Read More »Longing for a Messiah

It is so quiet today that I can hear a leaf falling and settling on the ground. Here, in my bare bones cabin, there is… Read More »A Note from the Maine Woods

The pickers arrived. Bending low, they pulled leeks, carrots, beets. A final harvest. There were five of them: two women, three men; Black, brown and… Read More »On the Farm

When I was about 12 years old, my conservationist dad talked to me about watersheds. He explained that a watershed was a geographic area that… Read More »Patterns

We were in the doctor’s office waiting for our appointment with the surgeon.  This was the day he would explain the upcoming procedure scheduled for… Read More »Keep Us Forever in the Path