Today is the atumnal equinox. Say it–ah TUM nal… kinda rolls off the tongue. …when the Sun is exactly above the Equator, this year cacluated to be at 8:04 pm, EDT, and day and night are of equal length. Today the sun begins the journey south to mark the winter solstice, the shortest day of the…
RABBIT HOLES
I read. I have ‘free’ accounts to many a news website. More than the articles I like the comments section. It’s like a self-selected virtual town square where you can sit back gauge the temperature of the room. Beware, you go into that room, you lose track of time. Recently I signed up for the…
Human Traits
Ralph, on the top step, shown here with Claudia, was our first dog. We lived in an apartment near Cranbury NJ and we found this six month old puppy at the local pet store. Fluffy, fuzzy and kinda lost he was ours within minutes. Both Tom and I worked so Ralph was crated during the…
QUIET
We’ve been having a lot of rain. Reminds me of Richard Harris as King Arthur in his singing/saying way, ‘the rain may never fall till after midnight, by eight, the morning fog must disappear….I know it gives a person pause, but in Camelot, those are the legal laws…’ sadly, in North Carolina the rain pours usually between…
ha-ha wall
I read looking out, not in. I don’t need to see me in books. I read to know. Know new ideas, new places, new people. I read because I am curious about the world around me, the people in it, the things they do. As a kid I read from one end of Cabrini’s lower…