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Girasole: Sunflower
As I finished the last few pages of a humorous/serious memoir about a man who dramatically changed his lifestyle and location from a high-speed Los Angelino to a Tuscan, I was caught up in his description of the beautiful sunflowers that…
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Mind the Gap Revisited: Stand in the Gap
As I think again about the admonition to Mind the Gap and my reflections on it (published 11.1.19 in Awareness), the idea about gaps and separations could bear more scrutiny. I recall an old and dire pronouncement about gaps that comes…
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Eudaimonia – Say, What?
Why is it that some words seem to crop up over and over, so worn out from overuse that I sometimes wish they would disappear from the English language? Other words, perfectly marvelous, amazing words, are so seldom used that when…
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Bread and Porridge
As a child, I had a very old book of stories that was handed down from my family, the cover of which was shaped like the trunk of a tall and narrow tree, The Tall Book of Nursery Tales1. Inside were…
