Today is a quiet day with no shopping or wrapping or cooking…a day to think about how nice it was to be with our family for Christmas and sit by the fire, share a meal. Christmas Eve was the start of the fiesta… Gifts were not the central event for most of us (except […]
Thursday was “Sidney Day” which has now become “Sidney and Vivien day” since Vivien joined the group on December 3. When Sidney thought about a baby coming last summer it looked like this… which in reality isn’t too far off the way it is playing out… The event of being born is the same as […]
Years ago I made a little painting (now in the collection of the Salem Public Library) called “Everything, Everything”…all the thoughts, all the feelings, all the activity of a life. And now in this season of my own life I guess that’s the way I think. The categories are loosening, the sense of the whole […]
So the other week my cell phone told me one day that I was spending an average of 4 hours a day looking at it. I was horrified. So this holiday Roger and I were trying to live in the moment…to savor the tastes, the people, the holiday ambience, the love, the food…and guess what…? […]
I might have mentioned we have a new granddaughter coming soon! Sidney turns 5 this Friday and within a couple of weeks will be joined by his sister Vivien Grace. Sidney and his Mom came down to Salem for lunch Saturday which turned out to be the perfect moment to turn over the quilts… Two […]
A memorably unpleasant day today, during which they sky provided an equally memorable meditation…
The Court Chemeketa Residential Historic District (CCRHD) is one great neighborhood. It’s close to downtown, to Willamette University, to the State Capitol and campus, walk-able and tree lined…but best of all it’s just a neighborhood of exceptional people and staunch GARDENERS. Last week in the middle of a beautiful but scarily warm and sunny fall […]
Actually we probably don’t have Fall Trip #2 planned, but it WAS the first sunny and bright week of Fall, so we took off for a short adventure with Jon and Irene to Astoria. We made a few stops along the way including the Jacobsen Salt works on Netarts Bay… where we did a little […]
I’ve written many times about “the Snail Blog”(here, and here, and here)… Ellen’s response to blogging as a Luddite committed to keeping in touch…she has sent me a post card every day for 3000 days (that is 8.22 YEARS for non-math majors). 3000 (and 3001) arrived today: Imagine. All those cards, all those stamps (though […]
All summer long I’ve been working on a vibrant quilt. It’s not of my making but I’ve had the great good fortune to be part of the process, and my work on this quilt has given me a hopeful feeling about the creative work of the world and people of goodwill. Here it is, just […]
On The Way 