As the clouds pulled apart, the trees and bushes seemed to swell as if they were drinking in the moonlight. The air has a refreshing autumnal coolness about it. The fishpond’s quieting waterfalls had a assuring melody. The pond was its own repose. As I cooled off, I was both drawn into it and it [...]
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After my walk this pre-dawn morning, I sat out by the fishpond enveloped by blissful darkness. It was the total darkness of the woods where everything disappears. Nevertheless, the darkness mysteriously soothes. Being sightless, sounds seem to multiply and heighten. They enhance the dark. Undistracted mental images sharpen. It is Rosh Hashonah. I didn’t have [...]
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As I walked through the watery air, I looked up at the stars this inky morning after a very dark day. It was hard not to think of all that loss of life, all that phyisical destruction, all that loss of American “it won’t happen here” innocense. Amidst all that tragedy, I also couldn’t stop [...]
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The other day, I came in from an outside blanching in that boiling South Georgia humid air only to find that someone wanted to roast me as well. As I calmly entered the computer room, cup of coffee in hand, eager to work the online Washington Post crossword puzzle, I paniced. Thick smoke was pouring [...]
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On this first day of the Labor Day Weekend, my walk was laborious. After two hot and rainless weeks, plants all along my route were raising their leaves in hosannas after last night’s torrential downpour. Nevertheless, this morning’s misty air was anything but airy. It was solid sogginess as the fallen waters were returning to [...]
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