Creative Life
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Our garden is going strong as we enter the weekend that signifies the unofficial end of summer. Public school started this week, and political candidates keep saying there are less than 70 days until the election. It is time to take stock of what remains to be done during this unusual year. I hope readers,… Read more
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Life would be more difficult if I couldn’t read or write any longer. These skills represent a connection to a broader society, one in which I have invested my whole life. Read more
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On Friday, I received a second set of comments on the second part of my autobiography, A Working Life. Two more copies are out to early readers who are close family members, yet I’m ready to move forward with the second big edit. I expect this work to begin as the garden winds down. There… Read more
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A family member had two trees damaged during a storm and my spouse and I got talking about it. I decided to go there and see if I could help. That became my Monday. I organized my trip better than most. If I hadn’t gone to Des Moines, I could have traveled to the Karakoram… Read more
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When I got to 6:30 p.m. I couldn’t account for how I spent my day. I literally could not remember what I did after returning from the grocer in the county seat. I tried reconstructing events. When did, I received phone calls, wrote emails, Ate food, and the like. It was no help… the afternoon… Read more
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I am reading Grace Paley’s collection of stories, Later the Same Day and was struck by how she moves the narratives without the types of digital anchors we often see in writing today. There are fewer invoked cultural objects and more force in narrative progression through her writing alone. Shouldn’t we always be interested in… Read more
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Except for the daily posts here, some journal entries, and some letters to the editor, I don’t have any substantial writing projects going on. I heard back from one of the early readers of my autobiography, A Working Life, and won’t hear from the other until Labor Day. There is nothing to do there for… Read more
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July is a delightful month despite record heat this year. Foliage is lush, flowers are brilliant, and on a clear day, the sky goes on forever. These are some favorite images this month, captured with my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. Trail Walking Events Home Read more
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I made no journal entry after seeing the Pablo Picasso retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art on June 4, 1980. It had a profound impact on me nonetheless. To see his work presented in mostly chronological order was astounding and relevant to my own creative endeavor. I had paused journaling while on… Read more
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After two days of heavy rain, gravity takes water from the subdivision toward the lake. We needed rain, and it looks like the garden will survive damage incurred from the heavy storms. A lot of leeks are now angled from their roots. Here is a gallery of photographs from the last two days. Read more
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