I’m pretty sure I killed it. Of course, it wasn’t intentional. I remember hearing an expletive (and I was alone in the car, so it must have been me) when I watched it in the rearview mirror, a tumble of feathers somersaulting, the momentum flopping it sideways over and over when it hit the ground, […]
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Shift: One Woman’s Treasure
I have a new guy in my life. His name is Dusty. He’s from Texas. We met, of all places, in a second-hand store. I must have gasped when I saw him. The woman standing next to me put a hand firmly on my elbow, dragging my gaze back from two aisles over, to her […]
The Best Years of My Life
As my fifth decade begins to wind down, I am still amazed at how significant this time of my life has been and continues to be. In my thirties, I thought I knew all about life. I was busy, active in a wide range of interests and generally moving at warp speed. In my forties, […]
Looking Back to Move Forward
Humans are very social beings. For thousands of years they have lived cooperatively in groups. Granted, part of this behaviour was simply for survival; but it is also very natural for humans to live interdependently. Before the industrial revolution, before the advent of the automobile and flying, people travelled and migrated much less than they […]
What Makes Us Tick?
What drives us, or “what makes us tick”, is an ancient question asked by philosophers, religious scholars, mystics and the curious for time immemorial. The time and space necessary to go into depth would require at least a book, so I will restrict myself to a general look at this subject, in a way that […]