Sunday School and other Lessons
Tip your hat. With the sundown background we paused to eat and drink, the vanishing sun as vista. We were blessed by the company of children (ok they too are getting older) and dessert. Walking Read More …
The Place of the Skulls
The gathered skulls hover like a bucket about to draw water. The bald heads dangle from the ceiling in Oaxaca. Between the story of the Crèche and the jeering of Elisha a lot of hair Read More …
Fly Away
Bridging the cracks in the terracotta floor the butterfly pauses with renewed wisdom. The owl image bridging the wings draws the eyes to the persimmon background that frames the resting courier of newness. The morning Read More …
Have you been to the Mountain
There are many versions of the legend of John Henry Bosworth but the Paul Stookey song that bridges the story to our living asks a question that reaches into my soul, “…if you had been Read More …
Landing on the Beaches
As we sailor gripped our way onto the white coral sand we saw the sign. Welcome. No, the word was WARNING. As the salt spray crystallized on my lenses I could read the big letters Read More …
Human Culpability
The pristine ancient limestone reef surrounding Pelican Island was a barrier to our presence on the beaches of this island. The park regulators restricted access so as to keep minimum water below the zodiac to Read More …
Getting to Thursday on Wednesday
There are these concepts we learned in kindergarten, or later! The idea of sequencing. The concept of days of the week in the right order. The connection to mom and dad. Some basic learning we Read More …
Go North
Never having been to the northern most point in Canada we took this opportunity to take a snap at the northern most tip of Australia. A strait away from Papua New Guinea! The irony of Read More …
The Hollow Men
We could make T S Eliot proud with the borrowing from his poem title, however the Yolngu people of East Arnhem in Australia may have never known the power of their words. The “bark” petition Read More …
Hole in the Wall
Like dominos the layers of limestone lean on each other till they reach to where the water rushes by. The rushing tidal waters peak at 13 knots as they pass through the Gagarin Rip in Read More …