Is “cockadoddledo” the sign?
When I got up this morning I was completely blank about what to do on today’s blog. Most weeks I have an idea tucked back in the corner of my brain usually even a photo that I’d taken before and
Understanding the Space-Time Continuum…sort of
This week has been a mad game of jet lag plus catch up that has my mind and body reeling. Through this fog of tasks and commitments I have been thinking a lot about time. What is time? How do
Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles
If you read my posts last week then you know I was in New York City all week for my nieces Bat Mitzvah. Francesca did beautifully, singing the Torah with a crystal clear angelic voice, and her talk about the
How to make a drop in the bucket into a tidal wave of change
I encourage you to read Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s, Half the Sky - Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. In it they describe in detail the oppression of women throughout the developing world and it’s global consequences:
Help a girl, change the world
I am traveling this week to New York City. I’m going to witness my niece Francesca’s Bat Mitzvah on Saturday and to help during the week ahead with all the details such an event requires. This will only be my
Harmonious Flight: you and six neighbors
The muse of the starlings has led me to some revelations this week. First I will share some of what I found out about starlings, then what I think we can learn from the metaphor. From a New York Times
Impossible, harmonious dance
I have been rewarded in my wanderings several winter afternoons of late and was given the opportunity to observe an amazing phenomenon, the starling swarm. The starlings fill the sky in a wild impossible harmonious dance, undulating in and out
Bounty: when life gives you apples make apple butter
I have been reflecting on the word bounty this week. My ginormous Webster’s Third New International Dictionary gives the following as the first five meanings for bounty: 1. Goodness, kindness, virtue, 2. Liberality in bestowing gifts of favors; gracious or
Exploring Bounty
Welcome to the new decade, new year, new month, new week, new day, new moment. As is often the case I am reflecting on lessons learned in the past year, reflecting on what was right and what was wrong in