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Christmas in July: Unexpected gifts

On a trail, an ordinary trail . . . . . .through the National Capital Commission Greenbelt near my home, we encountered an unexpected surprise. Christmas! The trail is popular with cross-country skiers in the winter, so I imagine the trees got decorated by someone in the festive spirit last December. Theirs was the gift […]

Really thinking about plastic

Plastic: useful, convenient, ubiquitous, ugly, persistent . . . My son reminded me of the daunting presence of plastic when he took this photo of a whale made of plastic found in the ocean. Beauty crafted out of refuse in Bruges, Belgium. The art of my friend’s daughter, Jennifer MacLatchy, makes me think about the […]

A splatter in time

In my earlier post I wrote about a weekend when time slowed down. I relaxed at a friend’s cottage, and the leisurely dawdle in time allowed me to notice images of wings that came to me. Immediately after that weekend, time accelerated from dawdle to flash and I rushed from activity to activity: social events, my […]

Three simple gifts of wings

I spent the weekend at a friend’s cottage. On Saturday morning as I read my book in the sun, an object helicoptered out of the sky and landed on my page. I took time to examine it closely. The maple key looked like a feathered wing. After lunch I sat with our friends to enjoy […]

Lawns, mothers, children and rough Mother’s Days

It was Mother’s Day on Sunday in North America, and on my walk yesterday I ruminated over the dark side of the day that I kept bumping up against over the weekend. The father of young children whose mother died too soon. Her young boys braced for a Mother’s Day where the empty space where […]

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