Thought

When I walk, I like to listen to podcasts, so I’ve been checking out a bunch of different shows, in different genres, on a variety of topics. It seems like every celebrity has a podcast these days, mostly interview-format, where…

Shakespeare’s Juliet muses, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” She’s not wrong — if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it’s probably technically a…

Travis and I just returned from a three-night birthday trip to Silver City and the Gila Wilderness. It was awesome. But that little vacation combined with an amped-up production schedule of our community film project, SQUATCH (see below), means that…

You know me, I’m a planner. I order, organize, and schedule everything I possibly can. If it isn’t nailed down, I’ll nail it down, doggone it. If I discover something unresolved or up in the air, I won’t relax until…

I have been dedicated to studying Spanish this year.  I still freeze in any conversation that comes close to normal speed, but I’m getting pretty good at reading comprehension, and my vocabulary has expanded tremendously.  It’s been one of my…

Last week, hundreds of galleries and museums around the world participated in “Slow Art Day 2021.” This is an annual thing that has been going on for ten or twelve years. I’d never heard about it before. And I missed…

A couple of months ago, I shared a bit of inspiration from this book I’ve been enjoying, Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman. I was only on Chapter One at that point, and I predicted that I’d want to…

It can be a little tricky to balance expectations around the big Christian holidays. It’s not that our community as a whole gets terribly hung up around it, but I know it’s a thing for some of us, and so…

I know I write a lot about my Dad. I hope it’s not too much. It’s just that Robert LaFollette Groves was my hero, truly an extraordinary human being. And I’m not sure that I expressed that to him nearly…

This Hafiz poem has really been speaking to me this week: This union you wantWith the earth and sky,This union we all need with Love…A golden wing from God’s heart justTouched the ground.Now,Step upon itWith your brave sun-vowsAnd help our…