I went to the first open house of the year at my grandson’s elementary school last night. We all gathered in the courtyard in the center of the school to hear a brief talk from the principle. It was a warm humid evening, but the kids were running around having fun behind us and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘My Life’
who knows which child gets left behind?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, education, issues, My Life on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
is your library your memory theater?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life, reading on August 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oh, the joy of discovery just when you’re turning circles on the straight road of reason. I’ve been pondering In Defense of the Memory Theater, by Nathan Schneider. His essay explores what we lose as our physical book collections, gathered by mind, heart and soul, are replaced with millions of restless individual books digitized mainly [...]
getting robbed of stuff and stories
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged My Life, writing on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I admire people who can write about tragedy in their lives, especially when it’s fresh. Famous people like Joan Didion writing about her husband’s death, even while losing her daughter. Christopher Hitchens while most likely dying of cancer. Regular people who manage to privately journal through their grief and anger. I’ve never been able to. [...]
it’s about the friends you walk with
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, community, My Life, nonviolence, Nonviolent Peaceforce on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a video I took at the 2006 International Assembly of Nonviolent Peaceforce in Nairobi Kenya. Nobel Peace Laureate & NP supporter Mairead Maguire led us in a tree planting ceremony at the end of the gathering. (Sorry for the big flickr label, just click play.) Mairead is a warm, generous and wise woman. [...]
dissolving into completeness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found another quote, this time written in a black and white faux marbled mini-notebook that I bought at Walgreen’s a few years ago, three for a dollar. I almost remember watching a c-span show about Willa Cather and scrambling to find something to write the quote in. Found a page in the middle of [...]
flip flopping
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged My Life, poems on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ready for work, opened door to leave. Cat ran in. Debated: Make cat run out? Grabbed purse and bag of tomatoes from garden. Too many. Debated: Beg whom? Gave up on cat. Drove. Made good time. Parked. Walked toward office Walking felt soft. Looked down. At flip flops kept by back door for quick trips into the [...]
my favorite sister in the microwave
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cooking, gardening, My Life on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I ate the first ears of corn from my garden. Remember, I’ve never grown any vegetables so having ears of corn appear, plump up, and six weeks later signal they’re ripe and ready is pretty exciting. I picked five ears and rushed home from the community garden to cook them immediately. One method [...]
what the bus driver saw
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cats, My Life on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I made a special effort to get to work on time because we’re shorthanded due to vacations. I made it out the door during the best window of driving opportunity, between the worst of rush hour and being late. It took me a minute to get my car key out of my new [...]
falling through the ice with proust
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was cleaning my desk, a drop leaf with cubbies crammed with once-important papers now immobilized into clutter. Amidst receipts, subscription offers and communications from credit card and insurance companies I found half a yellow index card with writing on it. I occasionally jot down bits of things I read and like, and tuck the [...]
awash in squash
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, My Life on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t get my new plot at the community garden until the end of April, which put me in a frenzy to plant fast before the heat. (In the desert you plant early and often.) Since I’m new at this farmer business, I went to the biggest nursery in town and grabbed stuff. I figured [...]
