I was sitting outside when the hummingbird fluttered past the purple petunias Nancy gifted me. I shifted in my new blue chair to see the hummingbird better, but it flew away. It returned a few minutes later to drink nectar from the red kalanchoes, Joy dug up from her garden and gave me two years…
Sometimes, little noses greet the roses,
I was visiting my sister in New Jersey when I noted two small birdhouses hanging in her backyard. She told me Sav made them for the kids, and I would get to meet him that afternoon. He came over to fix some stepping stones in the yard, my sister introduced us, and I commented on…
There is so much to fear,
so much to mourn, and
so many burdens to bear.
Global warming, coronavirus, and political unrest are all great cause for lament.Turn off the lights, wash your hands, vote, and cry if you must-
but then clean your face and lookup.
The birds are busy working:
making babies, singing songs, and telling their stories.
The trees are…
There is no such thing as perfection, they say, but
I wholly disagree - the places I've lived told me otherwise.On the island of my birth and where I spent my early years, I ate Jackfruit, June plums, and bananas ripened by the sun.In Newark, New Jersey, the birds told me it was spring, twenty-five cent…
This is the tulip Nancy gifted me.