Jan 11, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – January 11 There is a t-shirt (or is it a bumper sticker?) that says, “Life is not a dress rehearsal”, and to this I say Amen! We have just one “wild and precious life”, as I quoted Mary Oliver’s poem in yesterday’s post, so we’d better give it...
Jan 3, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – January 3 More snow, off and on all day. It was the type of flurry that made me feel like I was in a snow globe and someone had just given it a good shake. Because we stay home and wait out such weather, winter can make us feel like we’re...
Dec 22, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 22 Winter is a season of contrasts: white snow, black tree trunks, and luminous, colorful sunsets. I love the feeling of the cold air on my cheeks, and hate having to wear a coat when I go out. It’s frigid outdoors, and the woodstove...
Dec 19, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 19 One winter day when my boys were ten and fifteen years old, we went to the grocery store and as we left the youngest begged me to buy a scratch ticket. “Oh, honey,” I said, “they’re a waste of money. Only a very, very few people win...
Dec 16, 2009 | my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 16 A conversation with a fellow writer, and a walk through Chinatown, started me thinking about my front yard. See, among the stores on Grant Avenue, I spied a garden planted on the front of a building. This reminded me of an earlier...
Dec 13, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 13 I went to a holiday craft fair today, and at one booth admired some felted wool scarves. Some were covered with dots of different colors, and others with leaf-shapes. They were beautiful, and I told the artist so. “You must enjoy...
