Keep it Green

Sometimes, I catch myself waiting for time to pass. Engaged less with my presence in this moment than with the idea of getting to the next moment. Some future time.  Daydreaming is different.  I daydream, too. It is a kind of not staying present, but it can offer richness. Finding the right time to daydream,…

“Do you remember when he learned to walk?” Heather asked me this tonight in the kitchen long after Jakey was in bed. We’re in a bit of a countdown to the young man’s second birthday and it makes us nostalgic about all the milestones along the way. I recounted his pulling up onto anything that…

Facebook probably already told you this, but yesterday was 12/13/14. Plenty of people had birthdays or anniversaries, but the significance for most of us lay largely in the quaint, clean progression of numerals. We are pattern-recognizing animals, after all. Numbers on clocks and calendars are artificial constructs people created to give order to their days…

People go new places for vacation because these places are different. Or sometimes we might return to the same place year after year because it was once a new place that struck a chord with us. We love having a version of that same experience upon each return. For some people it’s Cabo or Maui….