“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings; and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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AN ARCHIVE OF MANY THINGS
- An Orange by Any Other Name
- Light Years from Lilac Sunday
- 18 – This is me
- 17 – I’ll Take B Words for $200, Alex
- 16 – Hoping for Magic, A Found Poem
- Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day!
- 15 – Unheard
- 14 – At Race Point Beach
- 13 – Prayer
- 12 – She is Walking, Spent
- HAPPY EARTH DAY!
- France on Fridays: Escalier au Ciel
- 11 – This Bridge
- 10 – Missing Iguana
- 9 – The Blue Room, Version 1
- 8 – Pro Tempore
- 7 – Walking Destiny’s Fine Line
- 6 – This Time
- 5 – Facing West at 4pm and Reading Anne Lamott
- 4 – can’t you spare a little missing?
- 3 – Yoga
- 2 – Naysayers
- 1 – Irony
- April Is National Poetry Month!
- Ode to An 8-Sheet Cross-Cut Shredder, Sort of
- Bidden or Unbidden, God Is Present
- Have Mercy
- It’s time for NaPoWriMo! Are you ready?
- Perambulating
- On the Cusp
- For Want of a Bowl Garden
- Happy World Poetry Day!
- New Photo Book Benefits Birds of Prey Rehab Center
- travelogue: home
- travelogue: roads
- travelogue: a change in perspective 2
- travelogue: live long and prosper (foodie friday)
- This Anniversary: A Celebration of 9
- travelogue: animals great and small
- travelogue: time travel
- travelogue: random redford
- travelogue: listen
- travelogue: culinary bucket list (foodie friday)
- travelogue: alligators may be present
- travelogue: symmetry
- Art-5: Sayaka Ganz
- travelogue: conversation
- Serenity
- travelogue: in this garden
- travelogue: here, there & everywhere
- travelogue: all the world’s a stage
- travelogue: vacation
- travelogue: a change of perspective 1
- travelogue: life is short
- Morning Reset
- February Reading
- Valentine [14]
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- Valentine [8]
- Valentine [7]
- Valentine [6]
- Valentine [5]
- Valentine [4]
- Valentine [3]
- Valentine [2]
- Valentine [1]
- Art-5: Remedios Varo
- Fear Warranty
- Bittersweet, Still Life 2
- Even Then
- Writing: Upon Reflection
- Bittersweet, Still Life
- Thanks Giving
- Cultivate Love + Joy
- Wearing the Year Loosely
- Storms Come
- They’re Jonesin’
- l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux
- Winter Reading
- Self Care 101: ABCs of Life
- Art-5: George Brassaï
- Read More! Join me?
- BENEVOLENT SPELL
- Let there be art!
- Goodreads: A Year in Books (2018)
- Storytelling
- Christmas: We’re All A Little Mad Here
- Finding Hope
- On Winter, Recovery, and Preparation
- Monday Message: All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
- Animal Time
- Monday Message: One Kind Word
- Friday Foodie: A New Favorite!
- Monday Message: Grace of the World
- Waiting out the Storm in Room 221
- Monday Message: There Is A Light
- A Book is a Gift!
- Timely Reminder
- Gratitude
- Kismet
- Monday Message: Love Is Vital
- Monday Message: Peaceful Means
- Lines
- Monday Message: Only Love
- A Good Time for a Book
- Words
- Monday Message: Spread Light
- Monday Message: Do Good Here
- Catalyst
- Ode to Fungi
- A Meditation on Mushrooms
- Perfect Fall Reading!
- Shape Shifter Time Shifter Crow
- You Just Keep on Pushing My Love over the Borderline
- anyway the wind blows
- Untold Stories
- we are each one of us responsible
- Unexpected Blessings
- Let Them Eat Cake
- Read This Blog Post to Find Out if You Can Self-Care Like the Best of Them
- Find Evidence of Flossing and Explore Our Divine Connection with Nature
- Buy the Book Today!
- Preparing for London
- Hope
- Change of Heart
- The Longing for Happiness Finds Repose in Poetry
- Creative Lessons
- Sitting Woman with a Cat
- Chasing
- The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down
- A Tour of Grief
- Even Now
- Buy Your Copy Today!
- We Are Two Kindred Spirits in August
- His Passing Glance
- All Shall Be Well
- In My Neighbor’s Garden
- A Lament for the Parcel at 250 North Main Street
- 9 Years: What I Wouldn’t Give for a Smoke (not really)
- in favor of prayer & meditation
- Through That Broken Window
- If You Need Me, I’ll Be Saving Bears
- Mind Your Busy-ness
- and they will carry her soul to heaven
- Happy National Book Lovers Day!
- The Sculptor
- 12 Steps for Self-Care
- Build Your Wings
- How the Universe Moved My Sofa and Changed My Life
- Drinks with a Friend
- The Great American Read
- You Spin Me Right Round
- TRAILER: Evidence of Flossing
- Handle with Care
- Present
- Buy Your Copy Today!
- Change Rooms in Your Mind
- Seeing Flowers
- Color Table 718-001
- BOOK REVIEW by Juliana Lightle
- I’m Sorry for Your Loss
- BOOK REVIEW by Christopher Liccardi
- Identity Theft
- Location, Location, Location
- National Selfie Day 2018
- BOOK REVIEW by Spirituality Without Borders
- Monday in Marfa
- Mountain Breeze™
- Buy Your Copy Today!
- BOOK REVIEW by Poet Joss Burnel
- Epitaph for a Dove
- The Missing
- 7 Favorite Books
- On the Likelihood of Bears and Change
- BOOK REVIEW by Mary O’Connor
- Just One Lifetime: Serendipity & Song
- Mary Anne Siok: A Eulogy
- BOOK REVIEW by Luanne Castle
- Dangerous Ground
- BOOK REVIEW by Crystal Casavant-Otto
- Upon Meeting My Dad at the Library
- Central Park Morning
- We All Start Out Knowing Magic
- The Responsibility of Balloons
- Detour
- The Magic of Writing
- Real Plums, Imaginary Cake
- Buy Your Copy Today!
- An Evening of Poetry with the Branford Land Trust
- Que Sera
- Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself
- BOOK REVIEW by Writer David W. Berner
- If I Could Talk to the Animals, Just Imagine It
- Mass, Shooting, God, Guns
- Passing
- INTERVIEW: Bookworm Interviews Author Jen Payne
- Quiet But for the Fanfare
- 30 – The Forgiveness of Rain
- 29 – New Haven Harbor, 1995
- 28 – 175 Miles Removed
- 27 – Ride a Painted Pony Let the Spinnin’ Wheel Fly
- 26 – Spider Dancing
- BOOK REVIEW: Beverley Baird Reviews Evidence of Flossing
- 25 – Cat Meditation
- 24 – The Sound
- 23 – The First Time She Ever Said Fuck
- 22 – And Yet We Do
- 21 – Detour
- 20 – Rip Tide
- 19 – Odds Are…Odd
- 18 – Joie de Vivre (for Max)
- BOOK REVIEW: Nicole Pyles Reviews Evidence of Flossing
- 17 – At the Crossing
- 16 – Wordsmiths Over Coffee
- 15 – The Indiscriminate Nature of Inspiration
- 14 – Interloper
- 13 – Extant
- 12 – To Be Privy to Process is Priceless
- Words, Crazy Words Reviews Evidence of Flossing
- 11 – A Little Cloud Song
- 10 – In the Company of Spiders
- 9 – Moon Haiku
- The Serendipity of David Sedaris and Evidence of Flossing
- 8 – Sky Burial
- 7 – On the Discovery of an Owl Pellet by a Poet
- 6 – The Writer at Dusk
- 5 – In the Moment
- WOW! Women on Writing Interviews Jen Payne
- 4 – The Anatomy of 3 a.m.
- 3 – The perpetual movement of poetry as it crosses the perimeter of change
- 2 – Blue Moon
- 1 – The Contemplative Life
- What Color Palette Is This?
- A Poet Learns…
- What could be more important than this?
- The Times They Are a Changin’
- National Poetry Month
- A Way with Words…
- Funny, Sad, Sexy, Maddening
- Eight, Eight, Eight is Great!
- Blogging as a Creative Tool
- At 3 a.m.
- there but for the grace of god
- Finding Inspiration
- Valentine [9]
- Valentine [8]
- Valentine [7]
- Valentine [6]
- Valentine [5]
- Valentine [4]
- Valentine [3]
- Valentine [2]
- Valentine [1]
- I’ll Take Magic for $100 Alex
- It’s the Story That Keeps Us Alive
- Janet
- Salvation (A 50-Word Dream)
- These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
- Bear Thy Name Is Fear
- Help. Thanks. Wow…2018!
- The 2017 Goodreads Reading Challenge (Yay!)
- BOOK REVIEW by Juliana Lightle
- BOOK REVIEW by Writer Christopher Liccardi
- BOOK REVIEW by Rita Kowats, Spirituality Without Borders
- BOOK REVIEW by Poet Joss Burnel
- BOOK REVIEW by Author Mary O’Connor
- BOOK REVIEW by Poet Luanne Castle
- BOOK SIGNING with Author/Naturalist Jen Payne
- INTERVIEW: Lisa Haselton Interviews Author Jen Payne
- BOOK REVIEW by Blogger Crystal Casavant-Otto
- GUEST BLOG POST: Exploring Mindfulness
- BOOK REVIEW by Writer David W. Berner
- GUEST BLOG POST: Finding Inspiration
- Are you complicating what is really simple?
- Local Shops Supporting Local Authors
- INTERVIEW: Bookworm Interviews Author Jen Payne
- BOOK REVIEW: Beverley Baird Reviews Evidence of Flossing
- GUEST BLOG POST: The Bravery of Storytelling
- GUEST BLOG POST: Everything is Connected
- BOOK REVIEW: Nicole Pyles Reviews Evidence of Flossing
- GUEST BLOG POST: Blogging as a Creative Tool
- GUEST BLOG POST: The Importance of Retreat
- Words, Crazy Words Reviews Evidence of Flossing
- WOW! Women on Writing Interviews Jen Payne
- On Gratitude
- Epiphany
- Star Gazer
- The Promise of More
- Flood Insurance
- Storytelling and a Man Named Ivan
- Sustenance
- Chatham’s South Beach Shrine
- Book Review: Kin Types by Luanne Castle
- The Times They Are a Changin’
- Memory Made
- Commonplace
- New Book! Now on Sale!
- Looking for Evidence of Flossing?
- Book Launch! Evidence of Flossing!
- Evidence: Violet
- A Way with Words: Payne Pens Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind
- Have you seen Evidence of Flossing?
- Evidence: Horseshoe Crab
- Win a Free Copy of My New Book!
- Don’t Miss Evidence of Flossing!
- Second Thursday Poetry Series: Nan Meneely and Jen Payne
- Evidence: Glacier
- Life Lessons from Dad
- Evidence: Mallard Duck
- this, a late summer bouquet
- 8 Years, No Looking Back
- Evidence: Mushroom
- Evidence: Sugar Maple
- No Bones About It…
- Evidence: Monarch Butterfly
- Evidence: Great Spangled Fritillary
- A Great Good Place
- Evidence: Start of Spring
- Morning Garden
- Evidence: Frog
- Microcosm
- Don’t Miss Where the Whole Universe Dwells!
- as she behaves, so will she be
- Her Captive Audience
- Sugar and Spice
- Gallery Show & Sneak Peek!
- (Chinese Food)
- Random Acts: Margaret Mead
- New Haven, Circa 1971
- You Made Your Bed
- Chanting
- Friday a.m.
- Lofty Gulls
- and then there were eight
- 338 Arch Street
- 7:25 a.m.
- Postscript
- The Heavens at Every Step
- Second Nature to Me Now
- Shift Riff
- Paradigm Shift
- So Begins the Day
- Poetic Shift
- Sunday at the Dollar Store
- Amalgamation Anyone?
- An Odd Courting (A 100-Word Story)
- Tenacity
- i am just the world
- Bistro, Cooke City
- Love 041017
- Love, too.
- Found Poem + Fortune
- Yay, Bombs!
- Cape Included
- Woman in the Woods
- A Roomful of Poets
- Apizza
- forest: a haiku
- Selected
- Random Acts: Howard Zinn
- Coming Soon! National Poetry Month
- Random Acts: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Random Acts: Mahatma Gandhi
- The Time Has Come…to Celebrate 7 Years!
- Un/common Dance
- Random Acts: Elie Wiesel
- Random Acts: Walt Whitman
- Random Acts: Dr. Seuss
- Herstory
- Shadow Art
- Mass, Shooting, God, Guns
- Random Acts: Mahatma Gandhi
- all-embracing LOVE
- LOVE for the sake of loving
- LOVE illuminates
- time to LOVE
- LOVE is our true being
- the more you LOVE
- LOVE truly
- where there is LOVE
- the giving of LOVE
- Nuisance Species
- Random Acts: Irmela Schramm
- Ekphrastic Rabbit: An Out of Body Experience
- Dear World, we’re sorry and we hope you’ll endure these days with us.
- Resistance is NOT Futile
- Memoir
- Random Acts: Shepard Fairey
- HOPE: We just have to fight for it.
- This Weekend: Inauguration Nation
- 10 Acts of Resistance on Inauguration Day
- Random Acts: Martin Luther King Jr.
- Inauguration Nation: Artists Respond
- Kintsugi
- that i would be good
- Random Acts: Sargent Shriver
- Commit Random Acts
- The New Year Stands Before Us…
- Random Acts: Don Freeman
- 2017: Do Right! Do Good!
- Like a Chapter in a Book
- A Life Lived Slowly & Simply
- Carrie Fisher: You Are Pretty, You Always Have Been
- Happy Holidays!
- winter is the glad song that you hear!
- MERRY, HAPPY, JOYFUL [insert holiday here]
- Sanctified without Assistance
- The Remnant
- This book is an oasis…and a great gift idea!
- Change the World
- CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? (please read)
- Thanks Giving
- This Day, in Perspective
- A Collection of Masks
- Common Ground, This Dark November
- Getting So Much Better All the Time
- Sides I
- Nature Brings Solace
- Prima Materia
- RoadTrip 16: Parting Shots
- RoadTrip 16: Speaking of Stories
- RoadTrip 16: Everyone Has a Story
- RoadTrip 16: In Order to be Wise, One Must First Be Mangled
- RoadTrip 16: Creative Interpretation
- RoadTrip 16: All Things Connect
- RoadTrip 16: Wide-Open Spaces
- RoadTrip 16: Great Spirit
- RoadTrip 16: Courage
- RoadTrip 16: 14 Days, 14 Selfies
- RoadTrip16: Travel is Essential
- It’s Just One Giant Caldera and No One Gets Out Alive
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
- PEACE
- so long as I go somewhere
- The Great Puzzle
- would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here
- Alice Rules
- Looking-Glass
- August 31 at 50
- the alchemy of windows
- Still Life 3
- Still Life 2
- Still Life 1
- Ceci n’est pas une chat
- Beauty is Whatever Gives Joy
- 7 Years: With Heartfelt Gratitude
- Interloper
- Queen of Hearts
- Ya Got to Make the Morning Last
- The Cinderella Interview
- Reminder
- Singular
- Variations on a Theme: Boston
- Perseverance
- Potential
- Beauty
- Shuffle & Shake
- Seeing Green
- At My Funeral (redux)
- Earth laughs in flowers
- Make It So: Five Oh
- bird removed
- and they will have Eden at last
- in the wake of fantasía
- 14 points of lead
- why did the turtle cross the road?
- Under My Skin
- The Rocks at Nauset Beach
- A Knowing Way
- Sustenance
- Missing Bansky
- What Remains
- To Come Unbound
- Folies-Bergère: A Different Perspective
- Meditation on an April Walk
- Tea Cup
- Two Museums in Two Weeks
- We are all a star
- Practicing Poetry
- Small Consolations
- 49 with a Chance of Hot
- This Sad Dominion
- Central Park Morning
- A New York City Schooling
- The artist asks the writer “how does it feel to write a poem a day?”
- Mourning Cloak
- We Walk with Ghosts
- being green!
- time doesn’t march, it has warp engines
- The Fleeting Moments of Light
- idle pleasures: a found poem
- about that unbridled moment?
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
- Night Song
- Morning Solo
- Epitaph for a Dove
- April Snow
- Eating Fear
- La Poétesse
- National Poetry Month: How Will YOU Celebrate?
- Fifty for Fifty
- El Niño
- Speaking of Alice…
- SIX things you didn’t know about Random Acts
- the great masterpiece of Dada was the idea of having fun
- table-setting
- be the peace you wish to see in the world
- Take the Pill if They Offer It, Alice
- False Hope
- art in everything
- So soon?
- Tune-Up
- Resolve
- LOVE makes the world go round
- LOVE is the answer
- LOVE is a simple practice
- LOVE thy neighbour
- harness LOVE
- LOVE in everything
- when we LOVE
- Benevolence
- Releasing Cows
- Tipping Point
- Epiphany
- Brief Morning
- Deviation
- A Lament for the Parcel at 250 North Main Street
- Do You Have Any Dependence?
- Raspberry
- Transubstantiation
- Measuring Water by Sound
- Permission to See
- A Journey’s Final Reckoning
- When Nothing = Something
- A Year in Books: Five Oh!
- Je Ne Sais Quoi
- Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
- Man vs. Nature
- Step up to Common Ground
- Discover the Magic of Nature: Just in Time for the Holidays!
- Pilgrimage: Walden Pond
- Consolation
- accommodations
- It’s a Small World After All
- Amends
- the slow migration of love
- If you don’t believe…
- Snapshots: Maine
- The Inherent Balance of Sacred Space
- Alice Off the Grid
- Hypocrite!
- This Semester’s Syllabus from the Universe
- Who Knows What Treasures Wait
- Am I good for you?
- Just sayin’…
- Dad, Guess What!
- 6 Years? You’ve Come a Long Way Baby!
- Scrabbling
- The Love-Hate Challenge
- Blue Moon
- Kiss Feeding
- Now Trending
- 1 + 1 = Yum!
- Carpe Diem
- In January, Resolution. In July, Refresh.
- “Of the mushroom,” said the Caterpillar.
- Studio Envy
- If you doubted for a moment about the beauty of this world…
- Dance! I say. Dance!
- Sixth Day
- He Saw, She Saw
- A Turtle Prayer
- Words
- The Yin and Yang of the Father
- Uncharted Territory
- A Big Fan
- Donut Girl
- Bedeviled
- Eye Spy: Frogs
- Flora, Flowers, Frog
- Sunday Sermon
- Open Heart
- Great Cape Escape 2015: A New Familiar
- Great Cape Escape 2015: The Organization of Stones
- Great Cape Escape 2015: Jetsam
- Great Cape Escape 2015: Flotsam
- Great Cape Escape 2015: Saved
- Optimistic
- Coffee Ceremony
- Commitment
- Bully Pulpit
- In the Morning, B.C. (before coffee)
- Construct of Fools
- Poetry for Whom?
- Beacon Hill on Sunday
- Monday, 4 a.m.
- Yay! though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death
- Love Story Lost
- Poetic Lobotomy
- Come Messy to This Parade
- There’s a Mastodon in the Room and I Know Its Name
- Missing Cat
- first!
- Driving to Bridgeport
- Oh the procession!
- the storytelling of poems
- One should never look upon a new photograph of an old love…
- High Five to Random Acts!
- The Ghost in the Hallway
- At Season’s Slow Change
- Precarious
- Hope Bears Fruit in Winter
- Lady Poet
- The Promise of Costco
- where you least expect it
- This I Will Savor
- Reading McKuen at Dawn
- how do YOU spell love?
- love truly
- Sitting with Dragonflies
- love will find you
- when we are in love, we open to all
- where there is love
- love’s a little weird
- love = strength, courage
- the act of loving
- all kinds of love
- And There Lies Truth
- I am not a writer.
- descendants of storytellers
- National Readathon Day: January 24
- The Time Has Come, the Walrus Said, to Talk of Many Things
- I Own a Pen (and so do you)
- Parable in a Pot
- Inception
- At Year’s End…
- A Good Year for Books
- Here’s to a Splashing Christmas!
- Holiday Yoga 101
- LOOK UP! A Great Gift Idea!
- In which Alice falls and we wonder…
- Where the Words Went
- To Be Marked
- Discover the Magic of Nature: Just in Time for the Holidays!
- On Thanksgiving
- Reading Repentance
- A Canadian’s View On Our Disrespect Of President Obama’s Presidency
- a meditation on rocks
- Books! Chocolate! Magic!
- This affliction of longing
- Nesting Area
- fate sealed
- The Importance of Empty Days
- In Which Alice Returns
- Conversation Peace III
- and you, underfoot
- Ah, the ebb and flow…
- Book Review: Look Up!
- For Want of a Loose Garment
- Forest Fellow
- Looking Up and Looking Down
- In Love with Ghosts
- Love Come Circling
- This Reflection
- It’s Time to Look Up!
- Get Out Your Banned Books and Read!
- The Breath of Connections
- Discarded
- Beautiful Foolishness
- What Sound, Change?
- Perhaps Found
- and just forget the world for a moment
- And at every moment, angels.
- The FIVE YEAR Mark!
- Expectations
- The Shedding of Old Skin
- The Afghan
- Words, Always
- We were blessed
- At the confluence of beliefs
- Conversation Peace II
- First Revelations
- Dear Alice…
- Closure
- Illicit
- Conversation Peace I
- Gut Instinct
- Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute…
- Dream 010107
- The Times They Are A Changin’
- Butterfly
- Dream Sequence
- Sunday’s Gratitude
- I dream about us dancing
- Filtering
- A Few of My Favorite Things
- Kismet
- What Happened To Hello?
- Making the Bed
- Test Subject
- Setting a Place for Adventure
- Dream 061514
- The Here After
- Ah Penny
- We Don’t Always See Parables
- The Least of These My Brothers
- When I am dreaming, come kiss me.
- Objet Trouvé
- Be and be better. For they existed.
- In the Weeds
- Sunday Morning Mass
- How It Flows
- Many Signs of Spring
- Saturday: Amazing Experiences
- Friday: All in a Day’s Walk
- Thursday: Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
- Wednesday: Pool Buddha
- Tuesday: In Birds, A Mindfulness Unfolds
- Monday: The Generosity of Magic
- Sunday: Day of Rest
- Saturday: The Start of Something Good
- Friday: Pushing Time
- There Will Be No Fossils Here
- Tell About It
- Speaking Your Truth
- You Will Be Heard
- Dare to Be Ourselves
- Namaste
- Robins
- do it with a heart wide open
- there are other words for this, not love
- Chester, 1:00 a.m.
- What Returns!
- what happens to words
- It is all in my head?
- In Response to the Ghosts in My Dreams
- A Legacy of Words
- Le Voyage Dans La Lune
- OK, Who Took My Balance?
- The Power of Words
- Springtime in New England, Part 2
- April is National Poetry Month!
- Springtime in New England
- Soup’s on!
- On the Agreement of Miguel Ángel Ruiz
- Watching for Spring
- Housekeeping Anticipations
- Disconnected
- there is no synonym for reunion
- CELEBRATE FOUR!
- for a minute I was flying, too
- Winter Remains
- And the winner is…
- Be Better
- Friday Foodie: Hearty Soup
- Migration
- Make One Change
- Finding My Way Back
- Dreammaker
- Time for Some Fiction
- love is all around
- love internal
- love’s beautiful scars
- love looks not
- love is everywhere
- Retrospective
- Friday Foodie: Brussels Sprouts
- Love’s Myths Musings
- Fancy Frozen Filigree
- and he will shout it from rooftops
- Little Boat
- Icons of Spirit and Nature
- Friday Foodie: Pasta Bolognese
- Winter Hibernation
- never to get lost is not to live
- Cast It From Thee
- Moonwalk Writer
- The Pace of Nature
- On the Anniversary of Heartbreak
- Friday Gratitude
- Dream 010914
- Celebrating Our Ongoing Conversation!
- Reconnecting
- Woods in Winter
- 2014: GO!
- Like Neurosurgery This Charge
- New Year’s Considerations
- A New Year Approaches
- Reunion
- and then we let go
- Merry Christmas!
- Winter’s Here!
- Time Traveler
- Alice Falling
- Fearless
- Searching
- Sometimes Being Shaken Up is Good, She Tells Me
- The Compression of Time
- The Tenacity of Inspiration
- Endless Gratitude
- Thanks Giving
- Days of Abundance
- The Stray Trust of a Small Friend
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
- New Hampshire, 1992
- Mea Culpa
- Invention of Monsters
- Sacred Space
- At My Funeral
- a good day
- When Signs Get in the Way
- Note to Self: Smell Roses
- I Spy…
- Published!
- Big Lesson, Little Teacher
- Every Tree is Full of Angels
- Illicit
- Comfort Foods
- Standing on Common Ground
- hope is the thing with feathers
- Illusion
- Lesson in Futility
- Ode to Artichokes and Friendship
- A Fall Walk
- Sunday Sabbath (or Sin?)
- A Horse is a Horse, but a Human is Human
- Love is Patient. Love is Kind.
- it looks like spirit swept in
- spending a moment with gratitude
- Monday Morning Realignment
- Be the Buddha, Lola
- The Tail End of a Moment
- When You Know It’s Right
- Oh, when will they ever learn?
- Building Wings
- Alternate Ending
- To Actually Be Present
- On a Frog Meditating
- Sunday Sabbath…
- Happenstance and the Reckoning of Dreams
- Releasing the Need For
- Pez in the Wild
- Reminders of Love
- True Path…
- Instinctually
- Following the Trail
- Go Play!
- the sun just touched the morning
- A Little Perspective from a Summer Bouquet
- Sunday’s Brief Respite
- The Bedroom Bookshelf
- REDUX: How It Went Down
- Gratitude x 10
- A Wandering Day
- Angel Wishes
- Lola Kisses
- V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N ?
- When We Come to It
- Wonderful Silence
- Amen
- A Little Summer Magic
- Charming Snakes & Kissing Frogs
- Sunday’s Direction
- On Your Birthday
- On Turtles, God and the Intention of All This
- Why did the turtle cross the road?
- A Magical Sunday
- Very Inspiring Blogger Award
- Cat Lessons
- Of Mice, Men and Snakes
- Read More: Life Is Full of Sweet Spots
- Losing Face
- Tell me about your books and I’ll tell you about mine…
- Leaving Everywhereness
- Sensory Memory
- Conversations and Confections
- May Memory
- Dream 051113
- Great Cape Escape II: Grand Finale
- Great Cape Escape II: Hope for Whales
- Great Cape Escape II: Visions of Design
- Great Cape Escape II: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
- Great Cape Escape II: Blessed Places
- Great Cape Escape II: Words Like Abundance
- Great Cape Escape II: Sand and Water
- Great Cape Escape II: Elemental Things
- Great Cape Escape II: A Journal of Days
- Great Cape Escape II
- A Spring Walk
- Read More: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- For You May Wander, but…
- Wildflower Week: Trout Lily
- Wildflower Week: Marsh Marigold
- Wildflower Week: Dutchman’s Breeches
- Wildflower Week: Bloodroot
- Course Correction
- Enjoy Ennui
- Tell-Tale Heart
- I’m Not the Only One
- Putting Love Away
- Note to Self: Play More!
- Read More: Girldrive
- Act of Contrition
- Why did the salamander cross the road?
- It’s Not Everyday
- Robins
- Happy Easter!
- Read More: Journey of Awakening
- In the Moment
- in my memory as if it happened
- morning writing
- Read More: The Boxcar Children
- Spring Arrives!
- Left, Right, Left, Right
- Read More: The Opposite of Fate
- Three is a Magic Number
- Spring Song
- Flirting with Echoes
- Lest Ye Be Worried…Spring Comes
- Read More: What Is Reading for?
- Pay It Forward
- Happy Birthday, Emily!
- Spatial Anomaly
- Read More: Small Wonder
- Another Way
- And There Truth
- Wishing You Love
- Lessons in Snow
- How It Went Down
- Read More: The Hundred Secret Senses
- Snow from Windows
- And Then It Snowed
- Sunday at the Museum
- Dream 020413
- Blessings of Imbolc
- Voila!
- Tempest
- how happy
- Read More: The Lost Symbol
- Friday Dance Party
- A Love Story
- A Chance Sighting
- Look Up!
- My Day Job
- Dream 011613
- Through the Looking Glass
- In the Company of Animals
- Honoring Sabbath: Four
- Evidence of Fairies
- A Passing
- A Winter Walk
- Resolve to Read. More.
- Mirror, Mirror
- The More Things Change, The More Things Change
- Thoughts at the Beginning of a New Year
- Down Time
- I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
- Holiday’s Mirth
- That’s great, it starts with an earthquake…
- To Find Stock
- Juggling Is Beautiful
- A Cabinet of Curiosities?
- Superfluous Verbosity
- Take a Walk with Me Today?
- Stay at the Center
- Flexible Flyer
- Happy Thanks-Giving!
- Guardians
- It’s Time to Read THIS Book
- What Lies Before Us
- True Blue
- a moth the hue of this
- The Path Ahead
- One can only…
- They Tell Me Winter’s Coming
- Luddite, Lemming or Just Listening to a Different iPod Playlist?
- Weathering the Storm
- A Rather Blustery Day To-Day
- Windsong
- Walking with Rain
- Afire with God
- Animal Magic
- In the Moment, In the Moment, In the Moment…
- Aunt Jen
- Incoming Message from the Universe: Just Get a Room
- So Close I Almost Missed It [smile]
- Stress Factors
- The Start of Autumn Days
- A Fair Day: Variations on a Theme (4)
- A Fair Day: Variations on a Theme (3)
- Yoga Today
- A Fair Day: Variations on a Theme (2)
- A Fair Day: Variations on a Theme (1)
- Tree Spirit Parting
- A Little Jabberwocky, Perhaps?
- This is What a Day Looks Like When You Play Hooky
- Saying Grace
- Honoring Sabbath: Three
- Reinforcing the Message of Acting Spontaneously
- I Went to New York City Yesterday and It’s All Doreen’s Fault
- Life Riding Lessons
- Just to Be
- Ode to Fungi
- Honoring Sabbath: Two
- moments of and brushes with Fame
- Seeing Things
- One Day at a Time
- An Eastern Meditation?
- Oh Deer! How Time Flies!
- seize earth by the pole
- Beautiful and Strong
- That’s Not What God Means
- Tooting Our Own Horn
- Saving Turtles and Eating Frogs
- Divine Assistance
- No Other Choice
- Connections
- Answers: Here
- Variations on a Theme
- Cultivating Weeds
- Permission Granted
- Word-Sharing
- A Summer Day
- Sunday Sightings
- Nature’s Way
- Take a Moment…
- Auspicious Sightings
- a standing meditation
- Summer Whisper
- Walk This Way
- Far Away Memories
- Lovely Lists
- Sweet Discoveries
- Spoiler Alert (or why I love a good B movie)
- Thought-Charmer
- Ancient Sentinels
- Unexpected Weirdness
- a morning walk
- Boston Angel
- Angel Spotted
- Boston: O Happy Town Beside the Sea
- Thinking about Writing
- Bird Watching
- What is YOUR dream?
- Meeting Geranium
- Reader Appreciation Award
- The Great Cape Escape: Souvenirs and Such
- The Great Cape Escape: Found Objects
- The Great Cape Escape: Creatures
- The Great Cape Escape: A Celebration
- The Great Cape Escape: Back to Life
- The Great Cape Escape: No Plans Necessary
- The Great Cape Escape: All Good Things
- The Great Cape Escape: A Message
- The Great Cape Escape: Leaving Things Behind
- A La Sainte Terre
- For Earth Day
- Păpăruda Rain Maker
- Non-Doing
- Wildflower Week: Trout Lily
- Wildflower Week: Bloodroot
- Wildflower Week: Violets
- Wildflower Week: Spring Beauty
- Wildflower Week: Dutchman’s Breeches
- A Seasonal Blessing
- Being One With
- Finding Stones: A Parable
- Indescribably Magnificent World
- A Walk with Spring
- Every Day I
- Harbinger of Spring: Nymphalis antiopa
- Diving into Adrienne Rich: A Group Read
- Earth Hour 2012
- The Courage to Be Different
- What Purgation Blooms?
- Spring Fever
- + Language of Dreams
- Note to Self
- Life is Good?
- Marking Time: An Anniversary
- Sign of the Times
- I have an inward treasure born with me…
- For No Reason
- Change Rooms in Your Mind
- Say Good-bye
- Leap
- as it will go
- No Other Life But This
- Rotisserie Chicken and the Single Person
- Happy Birthday, Emily!
- A Day of Sweeping Leaves
- Wanna Play?
- Valentine [5]
- Valentine [4]
- Valentine [3]
- Valentine [2]
- Valentine [1]
- When It Comes Around Again
- Today: Sunrise!
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- The Things We Carry
- France on Fridays: Revenez à Paris, Le Jour Final
- A Prayer for Imbolc
- France on Fridays: Été sur Le Lac
- Time for a Walk
- Honoring Sabbath: One
- The Food We’re Eating
- France on Fridays: Choix d’un Pas Plus Lent
- Intent-shun!
- France on Fridays: Visions de Monet et des Montagnes
- Bygones
- Changing One’s Tune
- And so it comes…
- France on Fridays: Sur La Route Encore
- Expectations
- Bonne Année!
- On the Eve of a New Year
- France on Fridays: Tapisserie et Tripe
- Chasing Thoughts
- The Joy of a Thousand Angels to You
- *the frost performs its secret ministry
- France on Fridays: Saints et Soldats
- *By Imagination I…
- Joyful Solstice!
- Strong Enough to Bend
- France On Fridays: Les Américains
- The Geese Aren’t Decorating Trees
- Christmas by the Seat of My Pants [redux]
- France on Fridays: Le Voyage de la Route!
- Bee-utiful Synchronicity
- Sweet Dreams
- France on Fridays: Plus Escaliers et Alors Nous Arrêtons
- *A Piece of Forgotten
- *How the Sun Rose
- France on Fridays: Escalier au Ciel
- Thanks Giving
- It’s about imagination, silly.
- Resistance
- *A Reflection on Change
- France on Fridays: Petites Oeuvres D’art
- Yoga Week Six: In Your Bones
- Live Your Dreams
- *Every Tree is Full of Angels
- France on Fridays: À Travers La Ville
- in which the universe gives me a reading assignment
- Yoga Week Five: Loving Kindness
- France on Fridays: La Plus Longue Journée
- *Today’s Mantra
- What’s Your Halloween Alter Ego?
- Yoga Week Four: Still There is Joy
- France on Fridays: C’est La Vie
- Bare Witness
- Yoga Week Three: Applying Stillness
- France on Fridays: L’Introduction
- Am I drawing the same cat again?
- Yoga Week Two: When Yoga is Only Part of the Big Picture
- the calm before
- *My Prayers
- Yoga Week One: It Will Come
- *Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
- A Passing
- *What a story this would tell
- The Elephant on My Chest
- Such is the reading of Walden
- *You Are All People
- A Blessing for Mabon, the Autumnal Equinox
- Mingled Souls Are We
- World Peace Day
- Grab the Bull by the Horns: The Challenge
- Carpe Diem…Tomorrow
- *Look at Each Person’s Face
- Seven Link Challenge
- Wake me up when September
- My Heart is in Texas
- The Kindness of Muses
- In the Analogy Where Bull = Change
- Hunkering down with a Hurricane and Henry
- Lessons from Dad
- She does not play small, why should I?
- a CELEBRATION and some statistics
- A Short Excursion
- What a Wonderful Web We Weave
- Summer Top Ten
- Summer Penance
- *Waxing Nostalgic
- Of Mice and (Wo)men: Derailed
- *as we go along
- That Which Distracts Us
- [ Alice Pretending ]
- I have something to show you…
- all the other things that just happen and are
- *People, Watching
- Compassion in the Face of Slings and Arrows
- Shout Yes! to the Moon
- *the fortuity of vague connections
- Me, A Name I Call Myself
- *Homage: Love Yourself
- Wearing My Joy on My Sleeve
- *A Classic Summer Road Trip
- *And Thee, Across the Harbor
- Making It So
- *Butterfly Sitting Softly
- *Pilgrimage
- A Meandering Adventure of Connections
- *brought to you by the letter F
- *Just Dessert
- Happiness is…
- Letter to a Friend at 45
- When Opportunity…Slithers?
- What summer have we here?
- *Sunday Magic
- Words + Images
- *The Whisper of Angels
- Take a Moment?
- Not Just a “Pretty” Role Model
- *I’d Rather Be a Forest than a Street
- Out in the World
- *Flirting with Butterflies
- ceci n’est pas un nuage
- *On a Day’s Walk
- *I will write to you of butterflies.
- Ordinary Art
- *Change Gives Us Branches
- Someone Else’s Words
- *Cypripedium acaule
- Life’s a Little Weird & I Love It
- Dear Sun…
- So, what if today is Judgment Day?
- *Peace & Love
- *Passers-by
- *American Idolatry
- *For all is one, though we seem to be many.
- Quid Pro Quo
- National Postcard Week #7
- Spirit Woods
- National Postcard Week #6
- The Story of a Cat Named Crystal
- National Postcard Week #5
- National Postcard Week #4
- National Postcard Week #3
- National Postcard Week #2
- National Postcard Week #1
- With Eyes Cast Down
- *Sometimes Running Madly
- Got Mail?
- As Reflection…
- Down the Rabbit Hole of Open Time
- *Happy Earth Day!
- *Perspective
- Take Two: A Creative Life Redux
- World Creativity and Innovation Week
- Nothing to debate about.
- Mercury: Are you at it again?
- [ Something to Consider ]
- It’s in Your Hands
- Epilogue: Cutting Strings
- *Happy Flowers
- *Nature is Divine
- Ask And Ye Shall Receive…but what if there are strings attached?
- At the end of the day, asparagus.
- Earth Hour 2011: Imagine What We Can Achieve
- Still We Learn
- *A Native American Blessing
- Welcome Spring!
- What a Difference a Word Makes
- An Irish Wish
- Aspiring to Gratitude
- Planting Seeds & Writing Words: An Anniversary
- Canal Street Epiphany
- Celebrating Women in Words + Art
- *Here it comes!
- Backyard Respite
- Amen
- And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act.
- Peace Within
- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Sitting with Ghosts
- This is what happens when a train of thought runs off track…
- It’s February 8th, Do You Know Where Your Resolutions Are?
- The Unread Book Project: A Death in the Family
- About the Intending
- [ Joyous Imbolc! ]
- Found: Post Office Bulletin Board
- Food for Thought Friday: Pop-Tarts, Deviled Eggs and…Brussels Sprouts?
- Unfinished Business in 3-Part Form
- State of the Union
- The Unread Book Project: Finding the Poetry
- *What Silent Words a Stone Speaks
- When Words are Abandoned
- *Sunday in the Park
- The Unread Book Project: Things Fall Apart
- The Unread Book Project: It Took 20 Inches of Snow
- On an Artist Leveraging a Value-Added Life for Maximum ROI
- *Marking Dreams
- *Joy Follows
- *Sweet Clarity
- At the Right Time
- [ What is Your Creative Response? ]
- Bonne Année!
- Where are you going?
- The Best Laid Plans
- What Faeries Be
- *Christmas Blessing
- Trying on a New Tradition
- Joyful Solstice!
- When Magic Has Its Say
- A Good Day for Frost
- Wise Women Wise
- Christmas by the Seat of My Pants
- [Not to Be Lost in Man]
- THIS is Chicken Milanese…
- And that, sir, is no Chicken Milanese.
- Look to the Moon
- Something More Important Than Fear
- *From where the stories come…
- Drawing Lesson
- Happy Excerpt
- It’s all about the gratitude.
- Chinua Achebe and The Unread Book Project
- *Snapshots: Marfa
- Standing on Art (and Principle)
- Setting the Table
- The Harmony of Wandering
- Monday in Marfa
- The Trouble with Texas: Part 2
- The Trouble with Texas: Part I
- Travel & Change of Place
- *Feather’s Touch
- *Quiet Mirrors
- *Wearing Masks
- *Gift from the Sea
- Swimming with Dolphin
- *Leaving Wrinkles
- Small Reminders
- *We’re Walking…
- Sitting with Dragonflies
- for the love of books & writing
- ENVY
- Wander, Dabble, Putter
- Remembering George N. Parks
- Swept Away by a Poem
- Asking for Directions: Part 2
- Asking for Directions: Part 1
- A Rather-Be Day
- The Things I Didn’t Say (this week)
- The Gee Why Em
- *Cat with Zucchini
- This just in.
- August 31, 1995
- *Monday Morning Wisdom
- [Finally Breath]
- From the Bottom of My Heart
- Social Networking
- Unabashedly Dreaming of Winter
- [Primate Philosophy]
- *Summer Still Life
- *Laundry Day
- [ Fear no… ]
- *Hidden Magic
- *With the Current
- *Sunday at the Park
- [when the heart weeps]
- to google (v.)
- *Now Playing
- Pieces of Thought
- *Like a Frog
- *Summer Supper
- *Farmer’s Market
- *The Gift of a Day
- Another Beginning
- [ Passport to Memory: 1990 ]
- Losing My Religion
- *Cats & Poets
- A Meditation on Bugs
- Dog-eared
- Food for Thought Friday: Shoofly Pie
- *Gone Walking
- A Prayer for the Gulf
- [ Passport to Memory: 1968 ]
- Inspiration Born
- [ Le Petit Mort ]
- *Sunday Dreaming
- Food for Thought Friday: Sambal Oelek
- Panacea
- clever.
- Waiting for Stanley Tucci
- Time Peace
- *Beauty & Mystery
- Heartsick
- Falling in Love with Angels
- Why Worry?
- Star-Struck
- Potted Prayers
- Technology or Cheese: You Decide
- Ask and Ye Shall Receive
- Into Character
- *Change of Heart
- [ Passport to Memory: 1983 ]
- Finding Marvelous
- [ Wish List ]
- A “Fabuluss” Day
- When Animals Speak [ Frog ]
- Earth Day [ Balance ]
- [ Passport to Memory: Intro ]
- *Finding Time
- [ Passport to Memory Project ]
- A Lesson in Contradiction
- Bring It to the Surface
- Thank You, Attilio Banca
- *Chance Encounter
- Awake, thou wintry earth!
- Confluences
- Compelled to Create
- [ Vision Prayer ]
- Feeding Ladybugs and Other Love Stories
- A book is like a garden…
- What happens when…
- With Gratitude
- Gotta!
