We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it’s the Tuesday that’s tough that really counts. Sometimes she just needs some flowers or even just that ear. It’s the little things that count. It’s the regular days of the year that you have to keep your attention on her. BJ the Chicago…
May 29: Bright, unfurled color
Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. Jimmie Davis Sunshine and warm days welcome the brightness of the season – all the colors seem to be crisp and magnified and exude excitement, jumping out the leaves, eradicating all memory of bare branches, and cold winter. At least we have short memories…
May 24: Veggie garden
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein Well, I will be excited if this veggie garden grows nothing but vegetables, since the squirrels stole my string partitions, that I measured and laid out carefully, and…
May 22: Patiently waiting
“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” ― Fulton J. Sheen Each year I have patiently waited for the leaves on this tree to slowly unfurl, one by one, weeks after…
May 23: Rivers after rain
“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It’s always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as…