perspective | perspective
Jul.28.2011
I made pancakes for breakfast yesterday. I don't often fix a big breakfast anymore. My teenagers stumble out of their rooms like moles emerging from their tunnels; blinking and shading their eyes from the bright sunlight. With a few mumbled syllables they head for the t.v., the computer or the...
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Jul.24.2011
E. E. Cummings once wrote that "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." Many of us, me included, have let life kind of happen to us. We've not created what we wanted us to be, but have just reacted to whatever way the wind blew us. Jobs, friendships, situations seem...
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Jul.18.2011
Perspective is important. We learn and re-learn that as we grow older (or so I hear *smile*). Perspective helps control anxiousness. It's easier to let go of worries after stepping back and realizing that we're worked up over something that doesn't matter much in the bigger picture of our lives...
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Apr.06.2011
I remember as a little boy pointing to things, and calling out their names to one parent or another. As I got older and watched other tots doing the same thing, it occurred that this wasn't just an exercise in recognition and naming through language. This was what now seems a deep-seated...
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Feb.08.2011
Twenty years ago, right after my boyfriend presented me with his great-grandmother's diamond engagement ring, I decided to buy him a gift. I wandered into a men's store near Pike Place Market. The windows were filled with black leather vests and motorcycle boots, but a few mannequins were tucked...
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Nov.17.2010
The mid-term auction kicked my ass. The gushers of money, the belly-up Dems, the betadyned Reps, the gloating media, my bummin' friends. At first I tried to be cheery but the jowly seditious Mitch McConnell, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Michele Bachman's pretzel logs of thought, the face of W on his...
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Nov.14.2010
They have cut down the trees
on which I hung my thoughts
for rearrangement
into coherent patterns
The branches were arteries
that turned my inspiration
into textured leaf
evergreen, sturdy, holm oaks
from the Mediterranean
whispering of sunflowers...
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Oct.24.2010
The last article of the Two Minds theme I've fabricated from the October/November 2010 issue ofThe Writer’s Chronicle has to do with D.H. Lawrence and his fascination with the Etruscan culture in what is now Italy. Lawrence was well-traveled and had a consuming interest in antiquities. This added...
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Oct.10.2010
It's What You Do And When You Do It That Matters
1. When you wake up tomorrow, make your cells happy. Give thanks to your blood, water and amniotic fluid. Where would you be without them?
2. Tech guru Alan Kay has said perspective is worth 80 IQ points. He couldn't be more right--a carload of...
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Aug.12.2010
Stalingrad – How The Red Army Triumphed, by Michael K. Jones
I loved it, I hated it. First, let me give you the thumbs-down part, and then finish on an uptick.
The book is promoted as that awful battle seen, not through the eyes of generals and strategists, but through the...
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