A Blog for 2025

October 31, 2025 Happy Halloween I have been taking this family's photo at Halloween since Ivy was an infant.  This is 3 generations and it is possible that I took a photo of Grandma and Ma when Ma was small.  Long time Greenfield pals.   photo by Nina Alright, so day 1 of the marathon down.  I had lunch with Herb, which always makes me happy.  Then I went to LAVA and began collecting the works for the Community Art Show.    Then there was candy and Halloween, the town's parade and festivities which Clara and I participated in.  She handed out candy and I took pictures and greeted more artists.   In the very beginning a few artists arrived taking me away, so I left Nina with my camera.  photo by Nina There were fewer trick or treaters, but there were many more hand made costumes, and many more Dads in costume.  It was fun. this was my favorite Her husband and older son were trash collectors.   LOL After an hour and a ...

October 30, 2025 Aren't we a gang of cuties? Back on top of the game.  What I want to talk about is using "not feeding people" as a political weapon.  No I don't really want to talk about it, but it is consuming my mind.  I am so disgusted with the political scene, I can't even begin.  But I would like to write about people caring for one another, even if that sounds squishy.  The joy of life comes in community, comes in harmony, in the sharing of differences and likenesses. The joy of life is in music and art and nature and children playing in the street.  The fact that we have priced ourselves out of reasonable livings and now are dependent on the government to feed a huge percentage of the population is terrible and it cannot be used as a lever to make billionaires richer no matter your political bent.  Alright, I promised not to be political in this Blog, but this one is hitting me in the wallet, and children who aren't eating well don't learn well...

  photo by Clara October 29, 2025 Welcome back, computer.  It's been almost three weeks since I lost the use of my computer and entered a Blog post.   Just recently I found a way to process some of my photos so I have been posting a few on Facebook, but not really. It's October, the most beautiful month in New England and I have taken some stunning photos this month and shared very few of them.  It's a sad fact. I also realize that I just haven't been recording my days in my typical fashion.  I haven't even been journaling this month.  It makes no sense except that my world has been topsy turvy and a little quick paced, but full of some good things, including the fall weather.  Geoff and Marcie left a month ago and much has happened.  And I realize I have been very present this month, very in my own shoes and feeling everything.  Life is difficult, I'm not well, I'm in pain, but I'm present and so supported by my community, so extremely ...

October 8, 2025 Where was everyone tonight?   Thank you to those who did come out to listen at Writers Read tonight. Wednesday, another week has slipped by and I have soaked in another Wednesday.  It started in the pool.  Oh thank God.   My body needed the pool so badly today and I am so grateful for it.  And then the hot tub with Gary and Emily and a sense of solidarity.    Then a time in the week that is just mine,  no one else's, a time for me to reflect on me as a tiny piece of this ever so complicated world and honing in on the fact that the best thing I can do for the world at the moment is take care of me to be able to continue to support voice and courage, serenity and strength,  love and clarity in me and in those I care about on earth.  For me to continue to support community and connection I need my own strength, serenity and resilience.  I have to continue to feed the development of me.   Therefore, a...

October 7, 2025 When your friend invites you out to dinner to meet someone important and you are abducted by craziness. Welcome to the family, Marshall. Can you see the moon from your city windows? Can she touch your skin? Are you holding her hope, Lightened Calmed? Can you see the moon from street lit skies? I left Jay's apartment today and this sweet pile of tomatoes sat there.  Someone left someone a present. Clara asked T. and me to join Marshall and her for dinner.  Food was good, I ate too much.  We laughed.  T is crazy and we all had a good time.   Photo by T. T. started his job at the farm this week.  He's having a blast doing what he loves the most, harvesting, being with plants and trees.  You can see he's breathing again.  

October 6, 2025 Today would have been my Aunt Lois's 115th birthday.   She was one of my first mentors.  When I was 13 I spent part of the summer in California with her and my cousins.  She was a head teacher at Sacramento Head Start and introduced me to creating curriculum to engage multicultural classrooms.  I was fascinated with what she was doing.  That was what started me on my professional journey. Today was a beautiful day in more than one way.  It certainly was physically beautiful and I got some good photos to prove it.   I also had a 3 hour spirit catch up lunch that grounded me more than anything has grounded me in awhile.  Mainly because being with another empath is just that, grounding and validating.   We are living in a hard world at the moment.  We just watched a judge's home blown up with her family inside.  In America, in our America we just witnessed terrorism. I had blood drawn before 8:30, I was i...