D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you. It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to…
A few days in Door County Wisconsin was just what we needed. We stayed four nights at the Sister Bay Inn. The sojourn in our comfortable room was existentially satisfying when we read the story of the inn keepers, Vilius and Alma Vaicekauskas. We had occasion to converse with them several times while we…
Another pleasant day exploring Door County Wisconsin. We visited Egg Harbor for breakfast. Then off to Carlsville for the Door County Coffee Company coffee shop. Not far away was the Door County Distillery and Winery. We purchased more wine than we could possibly drink. With the holidays coming up, I am sure that will…
This is my first visit to Door County Wisconsin. Door County is a peninsula with Green Bay to the west side of one shoreline, and Lake Michigan to the east of the other shore. It is the proximity of the great fresh water lake that shapes the environment and the way of life of…
“Help me to forget today’s pain…….” Tuesday mid-afternoon and the empire staggers on. Too melodramatic? I hope so. I heard snippets of a report from the fires in Northern California. Santa Rosa is incinerated in the wind lashed wild fire. Wine country burns. At the very same time our head of the EPA is…
Somehow it seems right to entitle this mornings words with the declaration that “love wins.” At the end of the shit-storm, a shining star remains in the dark night to guide us home. That star is the option of responding with love to circumstances such as they may be. Every man and woman’s…
Saturday and the morning sun is glorious on a day when rain is predicted. So much for prediction, our obsession with certainty. The FBI continues to dig deep, and search far and wide for a reason. There has to be a anchor point for ourselves, something, anything to separate us from one who murdered…
My mind is still occupied with thoughts of the 58 people killed in Las Vegas, and many more who will not recover fully from wounds. An apparently “normal” American collected the means, and took the time to meticulously plan a mass murder. Upon these terms the shooter decided to write the final chapter of…
Tom Petty passed away over the weekend. He was one year younger than I. There was vitality and nourishment for the spirit in those songs coming over the radio. I am sorry that I did not choose to see him live in concert when I had the opportunity. I’ve always liked this song, “Runnin’…
Durham of my youth was a sleepy town, seldom in the news. This changed with the advent of the Civil Rights movement of the mid 1960s. Durham was in the news recently. A crowd demonstrating against the implicit racism of the Trump administration pulled down the statue of the confederate solder that has stood…
