A few weeks back, I went on a reading binge. It also meant I was watching a lot fewer DVDs. I took a week off to read YA novels—and I haven’t stopped reading since. Browsing available library ebooks, one title caught my eye. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, by Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist. Gottlieb,Continue reading “A Life in Transition”
Tag Archives: change
Forward
Seeds are getting motivated. Indoors, marigolds are an inch high, and basil and thyme have begun producing little specks of green. Outside, both bachelor buttons and spinach are sprouting—though there is also a chance of weeds. For the third week in a row, Sophie and I have enjoyed a Sunday stroll, where she rides andContinue reading “Forward”
Awakenings
The Texas Red Oak in my front yard clings to its leaves long after other trees stand bare. Lately, those leaves have appeared on the back patio. Somehow the wind plucks them, carries them over the house and dumps the load. I’ll sweep up one batch, and if there’s a wind, a new, neatly sculptedContinue reading “Awakenings”
Change
Many of my poems deal with change—particularly my own need to change, to become who I am supposed to be. Here’s another love poem, written years ago. In fact, written while driving home after we spent a weekend backpacking. That whole drive, from his place to my own, I was composing these lines, and—except forContinue reading “Change”
Batteries
My internal batteries got messed up, and I’ve missed two blog deadlines. Messed up from what? you might ask. From Changes, I think. Change in seeing: I completed the three weeks of eyedrops after cataract surgery and I’m still adjusting to taking OFF glasses to see the world. Change in company—come and gone. Such aContinue reading “Batteries”
Something New
I blame the pandemic for a lot of things—mainly losses. Like my former pattern of early morning walks to a coffee shop. I always passed a walnut tree and in the fall would collect the ones dropped on sidewalk or street. Then there was a fenced yard where a scrawny peach tree leaned over theContinue reading “Something New”
Welcome to chaos.
Chaos: “complete disorder and confusion“ The world as we know it is coming to an end. We are in the midst of change. Those resisting thie change are digging in their heels and screaming “Whoa!” at the top of their lungs. That “Whoa” is revealing itself in laws attempting to control teachers, women, trans youth,Continue reading “Welcome to chaos.”
More Thoughts About Change
I miss my weekly yoga classes. I attended them for more than twenty years, but during Covid, the studio closed down, they sold the props, they sold the building. Caput! No more yoga classes near home. I’m thinking about exercising self-discipline and practicing at home. But it won’t be the same. In a world undergoingContinue reading “More Thoughts About Change”
Changes
In the space of a week—the first week of spring—we woke to the beautiful results of a gentle snowstorm coating all trees and lawns. But by the end of that week our thermometers reached 82 degrees. It’s very early in the year for Sophie to be too hot—but she is. She has begun refusing herContinue reading “Changes”
Kate Harrington 