Any movement for peace seems to be an open door to a future I’d like to enter. There are people throughout our lives and before that have made a cause their cause and entered an arena that was larger than them. This is what happened to Mildred Norman Ryder. She transformed into Peace Pilgrim,...
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Brackish waters
This is where the ocean meets a river. Where salt meets fresh water and they mingle. It is a place of changes. It can be that place where you feel grief dropping off. It’s kind of weird, you know, because it’s like letting go. You don’t want to. You can feel guilty. You wonder,...
Leaping Lena
Woke up to a great fog coming up the hill and crossing the boundary onto my property line. Some things know no borders and that’s a good thing. Wish peace and all good things were like that. Waxing sentimental. Would have should have put “sentimental” as a tag on this site and several posts....
a part of Lena’s kaddish
Is that why we leave stones at the grave - to give weight to our memories and hold down the love that lingers through time and mistakes? There is a river in Yakutia with her name. In the winter it is a road; so people are not isolated by the season. And they are...