Found Exhortation


After sitting for meditation and writing in my journal this morning, I went out in the garden in my slippers to see what opened after yesterday’s juicy rains. My journal-writing is feeling lonely because that was one of the times Becky (and Henrietta before her) and I always sat together. Once I was in the…
A co-worker of mine said today that he hated that everything we do gets criticized by someone. During part of the conversation, he also mentioned that once something written was made public and then questioned, an alternative meaning to the one meant (the alternative then necessitating clarification) often happens. Writing, art, and other expressions do…
This was the kind of imagery lying around the rooms of the cool older kids when I was starting to form my cultural consciousness.
In the presence of the grand, such as the cherry trees in full bloom, it is easy to overlook the small things. I am entranced by the small garden offerings, the loving care and desire for beauty manifested by the plantings of perhaps even a flower or two when all someone has is a couple…