Expected: Seeing this on display at the Cloisters (a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art focused on the art and architecture of medieval Europe). Centuries old. Unexpected: Days later… …
Red apples hang frozen in a stick-dry, snow-dusty network of branches, against lamb’s wool and pastelblue of sky, a crooked woodenness, a wizzening red. – Margaret Avison, Sunblue (23, 1-5)
Fair warning: a little intense and deepy-deep for your Friday. But this is my wish for someone I love deeply… You coddle your pain like a newborn. You nurture him. …
I heard Barbara Marx Hubbard recount the time she once invited Maslow to coffee. She sought to learn more about the field of psychology and wanted to surround herself with …
“There’s never too much clapping, Bubba.” We stood at the National Arts Centre in a standing ovation following the performance of the Messiah. By the third standing ovation, my hands …
A few years ago, I called to speak with my aunt in the hospital. She was ill and knew she was dying. I was living in Manhattan at the time …
What is it you plan to do with this one wild and precious life?– Mary Oliver It’s still early in the game, people. The new year has just begun. I …
Last year, my five-year-old nephew’s school (in Ottawa, Canada) was tracking the movements of the gingerbread man and he asked if I could share my NYC sightings with him as …
Have you ever had a dream you put your entire heart and soul into? A dream you worked so hard for, believed in, and had absolute, unwavering faith would happen… …