I have a friend. Actually, two of them. They have both ‘been there’ for me. Even through the years when I didn’t deserve to have a friend. I was too busy. Too much into my own agenda of life. Too self-contained, not even aware of how barren I was. They are very different but equally…
Month: May 2024
Are We There Yet?
TIME. Is there anything more variable in our experience of life? As a child in the family car, heading to see Grandma (we called her Baba), it passed so excruciatingly sloooow. Now, at 76, I simply don’t know where the past 25 years have gone. It seems like only yesterday that Barbara and I were…
Of Time and Turtles
*Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell* This book brings back memories. My Dad had a pet guinea pig he named Toodie. I don’t know where that name came from as Dad didn’t talk much about all the stuff he was thinking about. Toodie lived freely in our house, leaving compact little turd pellets anywhere…