Editor’s Note: an essay and a memoir for these troubling times. *** The need to belong, to be considered part of a group, is hardwired into us humans. Since we are basically all alike, my story will be your story in one way or another. Here’s mine while you think about your own. When my son…
Editor’s Note: For this Icelandic film, an artistic image of an iceberg on an Icelandic black sand beach. *** I am not a regular movie “goer”, much less a movie reviewer. However, to distract myself from the earth metaphorically tilting on its axis this coming Monday, January 20th, Inauguration Day, I have been earnestly searching…
Some random musings . . . Awakened before dawn by my hungry cat, I set up my morning practice: a pot of tea, a lit candle, my notebook to write my Morning Pages in, a few books I’m studying (“Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise” by Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat…
