oh wow
Are you ever caught off guard by something you’ve done? My new tote bags came back today and I was surprised by how pleased I felt. Mostly by the color. How it moved. I’ve been creating art now for how many years? I surely enjoyed it as a child, but it became clearly a passion […]
heart reset
Don’t you treasure time with your loved ones? For a few days, it’s just my son, Samsun, and me. His wife Amanda is at Bread Loaf, enjoying the fellowship of other talented writers. Nothing going on, here at the lake. Time to hang out. Samsun and I can launch a discussion. Later come back to […]
where was I?
Hunter and Lynn and Artemis left this morning. Which means the 4 year old is no longer here, keeping the tempo UP! And distracting me full time from thinking about anything more important than being 4. Amanda is away. It’s just serious son Samsun here, working hard because he does. He works hard. I just […]
playplayplay
WHEN, tell me when it ‘s not a good time to play??? Is there such a time???? I don’t think so. No. Absolutely not. If it’s not robots, it’s jump rope. Or chess. Or playing on the dock, in the sand, in the water, on paper, on the checker board, on crokinole board, in the […]
timing is everything
As I jump in the lake, I hear thunder. I look over towards the mountains and I see the grey clouds heading my way and the way they mist the trees under them with the falling rain. And I feel the first rain drops. I don’t care. I’m in. I stay in the water until […]
what is intelligence anyway?
. If you figure this out. If you understand. If you wait long enough… How to get where you’re going? You go to school to learn. You stand in line. Because you’ve stood in line before, you know who’s smart/makes good grades; who’s smart/popular. But how does that get you… where you want to go? […]
cows
I had no idea so many people would be excited to see or meet my mother! I’m on an airplane flying over the Pacific, headed to New Zealand and one after another, people come by to say Hi, Jane! Or, are you Jane? I knew my mother had traveled to different countries to attend conferences […]
YOUR way
Do you ever feel like the pressure is ON? On you! Catch the ball. CATCH IT! I was out kayaking this morning with Peaches. Yes. Dear Peaches, getting wet as I dip the paddle on one side and then the other: drip, drip… (not another boat ride?) We were passing this swim dock. It was […]
summer immersion: Squam 2024
Wh-a-a-a-at? Rain? Don’t you want sun ALL the time? All summer at Squam. Easy beautiful days. And in my life, easily doing whatever. Whatever I set out to do. No challenges. No bad weather. I want summer to be ongoing bliss. I started out the summer – or was it late spring? – with this […]
rebound
Do you have times when it seems like something is lost/gone forever? My daughter, Hunter, recommended a book to me: The Last Fire Season, by Manjula Martin, a month or so ago. I didn’t start it and didn’t start it and… I just started it. All summer I’d been celebrating the clean air and now… […]
