Finding Our Way Home

Mystery stone from Lake Michigan, 1 centimeter in diameter Years and years ago, I found this small gray stone on the beach at Lake Michigan, only 1 centimeter in diameter.

I planted this Lapins Cherry seven years ago, and did all kinds of care for it over the years.

With the heat, and the need to tend the vegetables, I’ve rather neglected the pond this year.

This month I am experiencing my first birthday without my mother, Mitzy.

It is Solstice morning, and as always these days, I look out the back door to check on the robin’s nest.

The border I created next to the road is perhaps the most beautiful it has ever been.

Today is Imbolc, the cross-quarter day in the cycle of the year between winter solstice and spring equinox.

I have much less energy than I used to.

At 4 a.m. this morning, I woke in the dark of the night to pee.

In the midst of cruelty and oppression, where does hope emerge?