Cabbages & Kings

“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

• November Morning
• if I call it the Zombie Apocalypse, neither of us are as scared as we should be
• Her Last Hurrah
• It’s an Indie Blog Hop!
• Cape Cod Sunrise, Almost
• Wildly Dancing
• Dance in the Moonbeam
• The Dance of Rain
• dance to the absurdities of life
• the sky remains
• not till we are lost
• New Poetry Chapbook Explores Death, Grief & Gratitude
• The Obscurity of This Week’s Words
• In Between the Storm
• Labor of Love and a New Book
• One Poem Away from Another Heart
• No Surprise in the Surprise of It
• Behold!
• If You See Something, Say Something
• Darn It
• The People
• Collaboration
• Upon Meeting My Dad at the Library
• Summer Reading
• Do You See What I see?
• Thicket
• Just Sit for a While
• Not Smoking: The 10-Year Mark
• Just Bee
• Patience
• Possibility
• A Short Riff on Doors
• Here Among the Ruins
• Fall Whispers
• Brave
• Poetry Reading at Clinton Art Gallery’s Poetry Place
• Colorful Morning
• Rhythms & Blue
• We’re gonna need a bigger book!
• The Children’s Charter
• Plight of the Bumblebee
• Colors
• Old Stone Secrets
• Let there be cakes!
• Time Flies
• Declared
• Singing in the Rain
• Who Thought of This?
• She is Strong in Will
• Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life with Coffee
• Vantage Point
• Fog
• Rain Mantra
• Transubstantiation
• 4 a.m. Tête-à-Tête
• Summer Reading…
• Idiom
• You Know You’re a Trekkie When…
• Mark-Making
• Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday Dad
• Quiet Magic
• Telling Our Commonplace Stories
• A Great Good Place
• by any other name
• all things wise & wonderful
• This Writing Life: No Complaints
• Fairy Peaking from the Understory
• Spring Reads
• Mary Anne Siok: Remembered
• At First Glance, Violet
• 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]
• Valentine [13]
• Valentine [12]
• Valentine [11]
• Valentine [10]
• Valentine [9]
• 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!