After Work Cherry Blossom Walkabout


Well over a decade ago, I bought this and another “Christmas” cactus at a yard sale, the two for a dollar. The woman selling them complained that they had stopped blooming. She still didn’t want to keep them even after I explained that they only bloom once a year. I brought them home and tended…
These devotional candles were on the fence enclosing a neighbor’s garden. I appreciate the sentiment, and am grateful and have financially supported both. I am also moved to ask why it is we put people on pedestals. Could it also be in part a way of letting oneself off the hook for doing what is…
Some think of yoga as folding or knotting oneself into pretzel-like shapes. No one wants to feel that they are tied into a knot in life, and those who make fun of yoga may do so because it seems silly to them intentionally to make knots with the body. But carefully learning how to stretch…
Last weekend, I went with a friend to see The Steins Collect at the Metropolitan Museum. I made a special effort to see the exhibit because of the incredible impact on art and culture that the Steins had by virtue of their collecting. Many of the paintings in the exhibit were familiar; I’d seen them…