Taking Care
It is a service not only to yourself, but to everyone who ends up having to devote resources to you when you don’t, to be heedful of how extreme weather impacts your body.

It is a service not only to yourself, but to everyone who ends up having to devote resources to you when you don’t, to be heedful of how extreme weather impacts your body.

When I was going through airport security today in San Francisco on my way to Los Angeles, the security guard made me stop. She patted my hair all around my neck and then let me go. I had read an article a few weeks ago (probably in the New York Times), written by an African-American…
I found myself thinking this morning of the poster from when I was a child that said, “war is not healthy for children and other living things.” I wrote it on the front stairs and then asked myself the question, how do I contribute to the causes of war?” And so that I am not…
Walking home after another 11-hour work day.
Anacostia River Walk a couple of weeks ago. Today, for my midday break, I walked to the post office and then returned to my work. Because I committed to doing it.
As I write, big fat flakes of snow are falling against a pale gray sky that is struggling to turn to daylight. It is too early to know how much of the storm will be snow or freezing rain or just plain rain, though all are both possible and probable. If there is mostly snow…
When the sun first appeared over the horizon, it was obscured by a low lying bank of clouds. As the sun came up, it gave beauty even to the clouds–illuminating and beautifying that part of our vision of the light that was clouded. When the sun rose high enough, the clouds at the horizon were…