Today I am declaring this year’s season of amaryllis beauty and photo play over, so I say Sic Transit Gloria Mundi or in other words, “Thus passes the worldly glory.” I am sad to see the flowers all faded and dry. But to be truthful, I am also running out Read more…
Lately I’ve been thinking about life, the universe, everything… You know— Light Stuff —like thoughts about the nature of reality and what everything is really all about. Recently my husband Jon told me that cosmologists discovered a distant galaxy with no stars in it, only masses and masses of gas. Read more…
Life is filled with wonder, mystery and awe, and it is filled with infinite cycles of beginnings and endings. There are ceaseless Murmurations of breaking and healing, dancing and grieving, loving and losing, birth and death — seasons turning like a wheel that never stops. Life is impermanent …one of Read more…
Yesterday after the raindrops had mostly stopped falling I took a hike at Carver Park Reserve. Walking beside the marsh seeing all of the different life forms growing in and emerging from the water reminded me of the fecundity of life. The creative power of life continues to amaze me Read more…
I’ve been reading a book called The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science by Andreas Weber. It’s a dense read and I often pick up the book and then put it down without making a great deal of progress. But I keep coming back to it Read more…