Here’s Tory’s photo of the seal pup on our beach…umbilical still attached…Mama came back and off they went. I read today she only nurses the pup for 4 weeks and then abandons him to fend for him (her) self.
Category: Modern Life
Bread and Soup
Gaelen told a story today on her FB page about being in the grocery store behind a very angry man, a man with no mask and refusing social distancing. When he left and it was Gaelen’s turn, she apologized to the long-suffering clerk and the clerk said, “It’s okay, he’s just scared.” I got thinking […]
“What is the Most Important Thing”
A rainy Salem Day… The mail brought a couple of interesting envelopes today…Natalie’s with a long-ago souvenir of Salem (the prison?? “Just From the Pen”) and Claudia’s with interesting things swept up from the drawer… and on the envelop this thought… Which led to our conversation during the little afternoon drive we took today in […]
Motherhood is a Thread…
And we’re all bound together by this motherhood thread…and on a day like today, when so very many of us are not with our mothers or our children or our grandchildren, images are about all we have….so here are some of mine. My mother and I started young… and luckily I got to go the […]
“Memory As Myth”
It turns out my exhibit, “Memory as Myth”…due to open today at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, was perfectly titled. On June 6th Roger Hull’s Clifford Gleason exhibit “The Promise of Paint” was to have a grand opening and it would be the opening reception for me too. So we join artists and curators […]
Pantry Pizza and The Perfect Pizza Dough
Pizza is really the perfect food for this moment. You can use any old stuff moldering in the fridge… and make something delectable…BUT…you do need the perfect dough recipe. Suzanne Lenzer at the NY Times comes through with what I think is the perfect perfect recipe. It’s stupendously simple to make and the dough is […]
Plant Retrieval?
In the spirit of the times, and with the inability to go to a nursery, I’m devoting my plant-pot attention to the old plants, the plants R put in the basement for the winter…geraniums mostly, and a begonia. They were bone dry, full of cobwebs, spindly…but I brought them up, tidied and trimmed and repotted […]
Other People’s Words
Just some words from other people for you today…William Stafford (thanks Jennifer) You Reading This, Be Ready Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better […]
“A Gasp of Delight”
I’m having a one-person Maira Kalman reading festival since I discovered Alibris as an antidote to Amazon. I don’t buy many books these days, but these books have such appeal for me…she’s an artist, writer, illustrator, wit. In 2011 Kalman was invited to curate an exhibition of her favorite things from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum collection […]
Raising Our Spirits
Yesterday was kind of, well, let’s just say “underwhelming” and let it go at that. I did get an invitation for us to wander through a local garden, and it seemed miraculous on a sunny morning…our first time out in a month so excitement was high… we risked a drive-through coffee… and while out wandering […]
On The Way 