Monthly Archives: October 2025

I’ve always loved Emily Dickenson’s poem that starts “Hope is a thing with Feathers.”  That image touches me. I love that she doesn’t call hope a bird, but instead a ‘thing’ with feathers. I’ve been pondering what kind of a ‘thing’ joy is, but naming the essence of joy isn’t easy. To me, joy is … Continue reading »

Life isn’t for sissies or the cowardly. It is hard. Unpredictable. It is difficult to face the inexorable passage of time, the aches, the pains, the unknown of how each day will go and how it will all end. Quick or lingering? Painful, undignified wasting away? Grey hair and walkers? Gone too young, before it … Continue reading »