Listed are the posts for May 2008.
I have only gone rock-climbing once in my life, and that was enough for me. My siblings adore this activity, so they introduced it to me one year at Joshua Tree. When I reached the top of my first wall and it was time to come back down, I felt completely stuck. I was roped […]
Sometimes, we act as if the world of our emotions is flat, a two-dimensional sort of place. We may very badly want something to turn out a particular way. That desired outcome stands in the future, on the edge of a flat world. We picture it turning out the “wrong” way, and believe that we […]
The first place I lived after college was Eugene, Oregon- a town with many unusual but endearing characters. One day, my roommate came home and said, “I met this funny guy. He calls himself a botanical revolutionary, because he likes to plant dandelion seeds in sidewalk cracks and perfect lawns.” As coincidence would have it, […]
One day, I was washing a window, which is an activity I don’t much care for. I was in a big hurry to be done with it. Suddenly, the window fell onto my thumb and I was stuck. For a moment, I went straight into denial, took the cloth from my trapped hand and continued […]
The other day, I walked past a garden alongside a building. There was a beautiful, single yellow iris blooming against the wall, but barely visible because there was a giant bush in front of it. This seemed tragic to me. Here, this gorgeous flower is baring itself to the world, but hardly anyone will see […]
The other day, our dog Maude was walking around with a rawhide clenched in her teeth. She walked over to her water bowl, and clearly wanted a drink, but was unwilling to drop the rawhide to get the drink. She was holding on to it out of fear of losing it; a fear that comes […]