“Don’t change horses mid-stream” We are way past the time to be arguing whether Biden should run. We are voting to continue with the “somewhat flawed” but “continuously moving forward” form of democracy we have. we are voting for the hard earned rights for women, minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ communities. We are voting for fair wages,

“Under Trump leadership, the country lurched from one crisis to the next” Read the Times gift article in the comment

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle There is much in our daily lives that is ritualized habit, much that becomes ceremony only.What differentiates ceremony and “habitual addiction” from enriching purposeful habits is conscious intention.I am love, joy, creativity, and resilience in supporting others in

Robyn Gordon 18 July It is a serious thingjust to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. – Mary Oliver, Invitation

This morning I realized that I am in a period that was called by the Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross the “dark night of the soul”. It’s a period of purification by trial. I have been dealing with losses of family members, by death or betrayal, a fractured foot, and am

Today, I had help feeding the duck families at Turtle Pond, from my half full baggie of cracked corn. A young mother stopped by the viewing bench, where I sat, with her young children. Her young son, of eight or nine, and a younger still daughter, were frozen with excitement watching me dispense with the