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Posted on April 30, 2020 Leave a Comment
I should have been in school today, and most of the last 49 days, looking into hundreds of pairs of eyes waiting for the unexpected. Today was full of eyes, though: videos of bright stars circling the drain of a black hole, sparking, winking out before they reached the center, Navy pilots laughing, like […]
Posted on April 29, 2020 Leave a Comment
Why is there something rather than nothing, asked and answered in my morning feed. Neutrinos and asymmetry. I’ve read about, but never felt, neutrinos pass right through me like I wasn’t there, and through this house, this planet, always speeding away from the beginning. But asymmetry, something slightly off just enough to matter, […]
Posted on April 28, 2020 Leave a Comment
Light scours the path today and scours me as I walk into its bright cleansing. How many times have I been down this path, no two walks the same? Director Werner Herzog once walked from Munich to Paris to save a friend and that made sense to me even though she died. Feet […]
Posted on April 27, 2020 Leave a Comment
A gentle steady rain today turns green a richer green, coaxes leaves to leaf out, finally, and one creamy pink magnolia. Friends text with tips on good books and offers of old puzzles. Little gifts in bytes of language come well in such a needy time. A perfect day to watch the Globe stream […]
Posted on April 26, 2020 2 Comments
What a difference sun makes. I love my body today, the way it stretches and bends and moves through space. I love the woman at the post office, her mask and friendly voice. I almost tell her that I love her but thank her instead for what she does. The cashier at Trader Joe’s looks […]
Posted on April 25, 2020 Leave a Comment
One bird sang from a bare oak today as I strode along in mask and hat and gloves and layers of clothing. It’s almost May and yet our region of the country is stuck in stubborn cold. Air, sky, gravel path all gray, the oak gray, too. The song, though, so melodious I tried […]
Posted on April 24, 2020 Leave a Comment
I’m putting the world back together, finally, one puzzle piece at a time. I resisted, till now, the urge to fish it out of the closet. Surely, I had better things to do, I thought a month ago. By now I know I don’t. Most countries and some states are cut in their exact […]
Posted on April 23, 2020 Leave a Comment
There’s a girl coming. I don’t yet know her name. She lives inside of my girl who once lived in me. Across the miles between us I can sense her mind working like an astronaut’s, heartbeat steady in the midst of wonders. Focused on the here and now, she’s turning code to flesh […]
Posted on April 22, 2020 Leave a Comment
Today it snowed, the wind cut through, and then the sun, then snow. I didn’t pass one person on my walk. What fresh hell is this? I think was Dorothy Parker, not in response to isolation, but to the doorbell or the phone. Today we learned we will be further isolated, sealed off from […]
Posted on April 21, 2020 Leave a Comment
Too many deer to count maketh to lie down in green pastures that would normally, this time of year, be our back yard. Sometimes they do that, just lie down. And the foxes rest in their dens, groundhogs in burrows, birds in nests, as if they agreed, for a day, to leave each other alone. […]
Sherry Robbins 