New Year — a Sombre Beginning
Shortly after I took these photos of sunrise on the last day of 2014, Pater got the news that his mother had passed away earlier that morning. She was 87, had lived a rich, full,…
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Families, Gatherings, Changes…Ah, Life, You Keep Me on my Toes!
We’ve had a golden year of having all four of our kids’s families living in one city. Not so golden that they’re all in our city, but we do have a tiny apartment in theirs, and…
View PostGreat-Grandmothers and Grandmothers and Mothers, Remembering and Forgetting
Lisa’s eloquent post on her thoughts, as a mother, on her own mother’s decline, prompted me to begin articulating some of my thoughts about the passing of the generational torch, as I’m observing it in…
View PostSorting What I’ve Seen, Travel Observations
Rather than putting my blog away while on holiday, I’ll admit I filter many of my experiences through its lenses. I’m out of sorts if Wifi isn’t available; I take photos with readers in mind;…
View PostMore Garden, More Memory. . .
Travel photos are an obvious form of memory, as mine of Barcelona. I wrote about another kind last week when remembering my mother through the flowers she’d planted in my garden. But here’s an exquisite…
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