nov. 28 Snow, and a blue sky this morning. The plow guy even came before we arrived yesterday. ***** Yesterday: We went in the ditch. Drove home from Toronto, left early to be sure and arrive in the daylight; the traffic was light and the drive was uneventful until we stopped to check the mailbox…
211108 zen and firewood
Nov. 8 A cord of firewood was delivered last week and K stacked it over the next two days, “In case it rained”, he said, though we had a tarp for that eventuality. Zen and the art of perfectly stacked firewood! We were supposed to leave the stacking for Tal to do, but when he…
211027 afraid
Oct. 27 Now and then the wind picks up the leaves for a little dance. They swirl like the snow devils to come. (Wallace Stevens) * It was when I said, “I will not be afraid any more.” that the pain got worse! For two days I was much worse again. That’s why the poem…
211026 Sneaky Turkeys
Oct. 26 The turkeys didn’t notice me on the porch and decided to sneak across the lawn from the sisters, the apple trees by the barn, to the wise witch, also an apple tree. Almost every apple on the sisters was eaten. The turkeys and even a deer or two ate every one that fell,…
211012 Breathing October
Oct. 12 October: Thanksgiving. It was usually the last time we would go to the Hideaway, for the season. If we were lucky we went up Friday night, arriving in the dark, driving along the long, up-and-down, dirt road in from #6 to the coast, to be ferried across the bay to the cottage, in…
210926 Baby
Sept. 26 After the rain, suddenly there seems to be more colour in the trees. Rain’s baby is born! A beautiful boy with red hair, like his father, he is perfect! I had the privilege and honour of being with them for the birth. Rain was amazing, and she and the baby are doing well….
210922 (written in August): in the ER
aug. 30 in the ER we sit against the walls like refugees who have reached the other side come in from the pain across the roads and the city to seek help triaged into curtained cells segregated we wait the border guards, doctors and nurses, interrogate and run tests, draw blood and maybe, give medicine we…
210919 Vineyard Ineffable
sept. 21 september, equinox, full moon, Rain’s baby is coming any day now. “if you listen you can hear the waterfall in the blue jay call / and you search to glimpse wings in the leaves” (from angels and mustard seeds, my – see footnote *** ) ***** The Alexander teacher says “let your feet…
210827 Angels and lessons
August 27 From the porch at #48. Mumma is in hospital. I have struggled with this back pain for five weeks, and in spite of three previous ER (hospital emergency department) visits and a doctor visit, I still have no diagnosis and until tonight no relief from the pain. But tonight I have been admitted…
210809 Mumma comes home seeking help.
August 9 We have come home to Toronto to get Mumma taken care of. We drove in on Saturday; 700 kilometres: K did most of the driving; traffic was light and uneventful. I feel so relieved to be here, in the safety of my own home, with Tamar and Nick to look after us. The…