STONE LOVIN’
Dear reader, is there something in the natural world that you are really drawn to? Birds, clouds, pine trees? Lightening storms? Is there something for which you have an unrelenting affection? For, me, it’s stones.…
Of Two Minds, or Many
What if there's no such thing as right side up? Of Two Minds, or Many When Left Brain speaks, she is right on about doing it right or don’t do it at all, do…
MelindaJuly 12, 2017
Welcome to Autismville
Shimmering minnow leaves AUTISMVILLE I can’t tell you it is an unpleasant thing to live in the quirky neighborhood, on the far side of the river, a good ways from the thickest part of…
MelindaJune 8, 2017
Self Portrait
" We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are." Anais Nin AS SOUP: I am mostly hearty kitchen-sink vegetable bean. With each tasting I re-season myself; more salt, a…
MelindaMay 19, 2017
Alone, I am island
Photographer unknown. I am an unpopulated island in a teeming quicksilver sea. I am a sturdy outcropping, raw, rocky, ravaged by two thousand years of volcanoes, seismic shifts. I am a testimony to the chaos…
MelindaMarch 9, 2017
The Feather and the Leaf
Picture this: it was cold, and I stood among trees. Many, many trees. I looked up, and there they were. A feather and a leaf, floating through the air, not quite up or down…
MelindaJanuary 25, 2017
Welcome, Winter!
Solstice 2016 On this, the shortest day of the year in my part of the world, I have a confession to make. I’ve been swirling, these darkening days, around and around like a pile of…
MelindaDecember 21, 2016
CHASING A CHEESE BALL MOON
December, Massachusetts This time of year in New England, it’s pitch dark at 4:30pm. I’m working on accepting this gracefully, though I do stray from intention a few times a week into cursing-the-darkness mode. Last…
MelindaDecember 17, 2016