Nov 1, 2016 | Nature, Poems, Social Justice, Workshops
Dear Ones~ With many of you, this Fall I have been cheering vigorously for the “Water Protectors” of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their heroic challenge to the fossil fuel industry, I sense in this powerful movement of indigenous people—and in the...
Sep 19, 2016 | Nature, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ If you are, as I am, in love with the woods, you will want to hear this Radio Lab podcast, From Tree to Shining Tree. The show is a thirty-five minute, highly entertaining exploration of the “wood wide web,” the astonishing system of roots, fungi,...
May 13, 2016 | Counting the Omer, Poems, Workshops
Dear Friends ~ Greetings from lush Philadelphia in the middle of May! This Place Every so often in the course of seasons comes a time when you know once again the place you have chosen to be is the place that has chosen you. It’s like that now in azalea time...
Apr 18, 2016 | Counting the Omer, Judaism, Poems, Workshops
Dear Friends~ Here’s the news from my world–first in poetry, then in prose. Spring of my Spring He’s back again, the little bird with his drill of a song. See how he cleaves to the branch by the hanging box that swings so hopefully in the Rose of Sharon....
Mar 15, 2016 | Poems, Workshops
Dear Friends~ Beautiful souls are gathering for Spring Writing Circles. The Friday group in my Mt. Airy home is well underway. An early bird deadline is coming up this Friday, March 17 for the Wissahickon Circle at The Cedars House. If you know you would like to write...
