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Danny and the Laundry
It was a very stressful time in the kindergarten class at the early education school that I administered. Who knew that a little boy barely five years old could turn the whole place upside down and cause grown women to cry…
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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…
