Walking along summer turning to autumn roads. Walking the rambling circle. Walking slowly cautiously. Head bent down often seeking for/ seeing /choosing heart shaped rocks. Stones not too heavy to burden my journey. Changing. I have begun to collect smooth unworried…
Climate change /Absurd The spring birds arrived in the winter The rain came in place of the snow The wind stormed when it should have been calmer Not an odd moment but a permanent change in the weather The vast ice…
My last visit with Jennifer Ryan (my daughter’s mother-in-law) was September 6, 2019 and it left me shaken and sad. Lament for Jen o’fer She was …….she was….. she ain’t anymore what she was Jen o’ fer (as they say in merry…
As the world turns In the local Spanish culture there is a word for two women whose children are married and share grandchildren-comadre (spelling unknown). My older daughter Melissa married Alex Cserhat in 1996. His mother, Jennifer Ryan, lives in Taos and has…
If you’re definitely still alive but you think that an important part of you has died, can you hold a memorial for that part of you that feels over or vanished? I want to have a funeral for my looks. My good looks. …
I really can’t take it any more! After all these various shoot-ups and mass murders you would think I would get used to reading about innocent folks being killed doing regular normal things like going to a Garlic Festival or for heaven sake…
I live in a small town; I know many of the inhabitants of my community without knowing them well. I count on our friendly random interweaving and mild exchanges. Seen from the corner of my eye Elaine Sutton ……Lee Driver Let me…
Hey I am getting OLD! Turning 50 years, turning 60 years old, turning 65 years old and well even turning 70 years old…not so bad. I was feeling reasonably good…what is this aging stuff? Hmmm, not as thin as I used to be,…
So many funerals… I live in a small town and I am of a certain age. This means people I know seem to be dying off on some unknown but regular schedule. Lately, I have been going to quite a few funerals. I…