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I miss John Lennon
With Christmas upon us and a new year waiting in line, why can’t we imagine a world where there are no more mind games? If we change our ways, our habits just a little, then maybe our place in the world gets better. If we give peace that chance with ourselves and with each other, then maybe we, too, can get off the merry-go-round and make the world a better place.
Discovering my own slice of rural America
Life is not a riddle. Life is a seed that is buried deep within each of us. It sits there biding its time, learning and growing until something or someone plants an idea— waters the seed if you will— and it suddenly sprouts, giving direction and purpose. I found my life, my purpose, from the photos of Montana as a child to the stories of a Vermont farm life by a professor and sometime farmer and from the words of a friend who said, “Go to Maine, it’s a wonderful place”. I ultimately did, and in the words oft quoted by Perrin, “It will be no bad legacy to leave.”
Finding the still water in our life
Finding those still waters in my life always involved a place where I could suspend time for a moment, take a deep breath and appreciate all that is around me.
I miss John Lennon
With Christmas upon us and a new year waiting in line, why can’t we imagine a world where there are no more mind games? If we change our ways, our habits just a little, then maybe our place in the world gets better. If we give peace that chance with ourselves and with each other, then maybe we, too, can get off the merry-go-round and make the world a better place.
When it’s our turn
The mirror of tomorrow reflects the days that will most assuredly come and with it that predictable acceptance of the unpredictable. We are never prepared for its arrival. We wave a hand at the shadows that arrive to blur our sight, try to dismiss and move along a day that is always there to follow any circumstance. Time heals they say, but then again, it also remembers.
Needing to be tough in a fragile world
Today we grumble about just about everything. Having to drive back to the store because we forgot something; too many commercials on TV interrupting our favorite program; lack of “likes” on a social media post; the cost to live life all while worrying about how we look, feel, what others might think and that tomorrow will pretty much be the same as today.
A Portrait to Paint
That is what poetry sometimes must be — a woven tapestry of necessary conversations coming from all the rooms of a world, horrid, beautiful and resilient. All of it here in this collection sweeps us to a better understanding, a better place, if but for a moment.
More Than Meets The Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine
Life and loss amidst the surreal natural wonder that is coastal Maine are here in real-life moments that confirm the perpetuallity of life. It truly does not end if we open our self to the healing power of a place, its people and its natural wonders. Nature indeed will speak to you about the nature of life.
Mountain Girl: From Barefoot to Boardroom
What do we keep with us when everything around us is changing? In her story Mountain Girl, Marilyn Moss Rockefeller answers that nothing changes unless you allow it to, you are you and that is carried with you forever. This is the very thought I had as I closed this wonderful memoir.
Sharing a distant horizon with a German submariner
“It sure looks different from here,” he said. The words held their distinct tone and accent. His gaze was fixed, his body statuesque, a marble edifice on granite, fixed and determined. His face was a sponge of emotion taking it all in, and, gently squeezing out the last drops of seawater and memories of days from so long ago.
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