A year ago the world shut down. A year ago our lives changed. A year ago streets were silent and city centers deserted. There was no laughter in playgrounds or schools. Children stayed home. There was fear. A virulent virus, perhaps caused by bats or pangolins in a distant Chinese wet market overtook the world. Covid-19, like the Plague, Black … [Read more...]
Weather Phenomenon and California Fires
Dramatic Lightening Show On August 16 the night sky across Northern California was lit by a dramatic a dry lightening storm, a weather phenomenon. "A weather event on a scale not seen in decades," reported the New York Times. It was an extraordinary light show with 12,000 lightening strikes. Multiple jagged forks and brilliant white bolts of … [Read more...]
Nagasaki Today
August 9, 1945 This is Nagasaki today. It is seventy-five years since the Atomic Bomb was dropped on the city ending World War II. Today the city is rebuilt and is once again a thriving port. But the scars, both physical and emotional are deep and everlasting, My visit to the Hypocenter, or ground zero, museum and adjacent Peace Park were … [Read more...]
East Hampton Retreat
Fireflies, Artists and Flowers Was it the sunsets or the luminescent fireflies dancing on the lawn by Hook Pond that made my East Hampton retreat so memorable? Or was it finding a patch of iris, similar to those painted by Childe Hassam in 1909? Iris which Hassam immortalized in The Water Garden, a painting which mesmerized me in the … [Read more...]
A Tribute to Fathers
Today is fathers day and this is a tribute to all fathers. It is also a personal tribute to my own father and a precious recollection. Summer Solstice to Remember It was a summer evening - maybe close to the summer solstice. The windows were open and our house was filled with garden fragrance. It was my bedtime, but the night was warm and … [Read more...]
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