“In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words.”William Carlos Williams Seems like it makes sense to follow up my latest observational post about steering into bliss, kindness, and having fun with some photographic evidence of same. Five-star production of “Spring Awakening” at the Flint Rep Back in the director’s chair for a stagedContinueContinue reading “The Summer of Our Content”
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Spring 2024 Observations
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat I miss my dad. I miss him a little less when I do things that he loved to do with me. It’s like a mini-seance, when I do those things. Children are a mirror. Teenagers are a funhouse mirror. An object inContinueContinue reading “Spring 2024 Observations”
Muttering Retreat: Chicago
It’s one thing to know intellectually that a weekend getaway will do me good. It’s quite another to actually make that happen. Fortunately the stars aligned and I was able to spend a delightful couple of days with a woman who has been one of my very favorite traveling companions in the past — butContinueContinue reading “Muttering Retreat: Chicago”
Looking Up in Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art It was high time I checked off another item on my Surround Myself with Beautiful Things in 2024 list. Easily one of the top ten best art museum experiences I can recall, despite its residence in one of my least favorite states in the U.S., the Cleveland Museum of Art isContinueContinue reading “Looking Up in Ohio”
A New Season
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room fullContinueContinue reading “A New Season”
And How Should I Presume
“Silence is a practice of emptying, of letting go. It is a process of hollowing ourselves out so we can open to what is emerging. Our work is to make ourselves receptive. The organ of receiving is the human heart, and it is here that we feel the deep ache of loss, the bittersweet remindersContinueContinue reading “And How Should I Presume”
No Place Like Home
Afternoon Delight cafe – Ann Arbor, MI It was one of those rare Michigan November days when the sky is blue, the air is crisp, and multi-colored leaves still cling to enough of the trees to make you believe you live inside of a postcard. It was also the day of my daughter’s campus tourContinueContinue reading “No Place Like Home”
My Father’s Legacy
Here’s what I’ve been working on, to insert into the program for my father’s celebration of life later this month. Slowly but surely, I’m finding some words. “Nature Boy” – Photo of Charley Hudson @ Sedona, AZ by Heather Hudson There was a boyA very strange, enchanted boyThey say he wandered very farVery farOver landContinueContinue reading “My Father’s Legacy”
This Weekend in Detroit
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. AndContinueContinue reading “This Weekend in Detroit”
7 x 7 Days of Mourning
This day is typically my week’s reward, no doubt directly influenced by my American TGIF culture. The ambassador of the weekend, its wake up times are usually flexible and bedtimes are virtually nonexistent. It’s a day for working from home and forgoing nice pants. Friday is Chai Day. Friday is now also the day thatContinueContinue reading “7 x 7 Days of Mourning”
Muttering Retreats 