May 2025

“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” – Fennel Hudson

August • September • October 2024

Some missing pages.

March 2024

“But why should the daffodils and tulips / Get all the praise and blessings? / My rebirth goes unnoticed- I am worthy / Of smiles and dazzled cries of worship.” — Lea Malot

November 2023

“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” — Cynthia Rylant

January 2022

“I blink January’s lashes
and gush down December’s cheeks”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

OCTOBER 2021 • AN IMPROMPTU ESCAPE TO LONG BEACH, CA • PART III

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” — Lin Yutang

OCTOBER 2021 • AN IMPROMPTU ESCAPE TO LONG BEACH, CA • PART II

If you don’t love life you can’t enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. – Eleanor Clark

October 2021 • An Impromptu Escape To Long Beach, CA • Part I

“And this maiden she lived with no other thought / Than to love and be loved by me.”

34 by the sea

Another year older, hopefully wiser? (Probably not.)