Dear Dreamers, A few years ago, a new word burst upon the internet, and we learned about hygge, or “cozy comfortable conviviality” – which summarizes the Scandinavian approach to surviving [...]
Do you ever emerge from the haze of sleep with one tiny flake of a dream, maybe just a single image, phrase, or feeling? Me too. What about you? I [...]
My cherubic sons are now big and hairy and out in the world: I love them to distraction and I’m insanely proud of them. Here at Advent, I’m thinking of [...]
Dear Dreamers, Oh November. This is my favorite month, which, for those of you already blue with cold may sound odd, especially considering the delirious bliss of April and May, [...]
Last weekend in Jonesborough, home of the International Storytelling Festival, we had a Main Street event, complete with artists and musicians and many pumpkins. I was so inspired by the [...]
Fires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wars, and still… maybe forever… the pandemic. Systemic racism. Political differences turning to vicious outrage. Global scale refugees fleeing violence, political chaos, and environmental disaster. [...]
Dear Dreamers – There’s a particular shrub whose blossoms scented the air of earliest summer when as a child, I would immerse myself, bodymindandsoul into the hours-long enthrallment of reading. The [...]
Spring... a walk in the park...birds warbling...dazzling sun on the lake... a delightful toddler with his grandpa… joggers and amblers...a cool breeze...delirious green undergrowth filling the woods...a million wildflowers. Here [...]
