Burningbirdhad a nice long walk at Tower Grove park today. The conditions were about perfect: sunshine, cold, and soft white snow. I must be a simple woman, with simple tastes, because there are few things I enjoy more than a winter walk. Few people were about, so I could stop as I wished and explore […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke up this morning and looked out the window to streets white with snow. Now I feel in the mood for the holidays. Not enough to shop or decorate or anything, but a winter holiday mood nonetheless. I went looking for my version of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another posting from last year, wrote while looking out on palm trees and bare streets, walkers in shorts. This year, I repost these words while looking out at white flakes falling past my window, covering the ground. What is it about falling snow that makes one reflective, somehow wistful and […]
Two things today: Jonathon posts an apology to Dorothea and Tish that I thought was well done. And both Tish and Dorothea deserved it. Sheila has much good to say about feminism and girlism. As does Suzanne in my comments to the posting “Looking Glass Self”. She writes: Okay, so I took some time to follow the thread a little and I have […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was cleaning out my old email when I found an outgoing email with the following: There is no warmth among the wires. It’s only plastic, and metal, and electricity. That was long ago, but this is now.