Recent happenings…

Just finished re-reading Patrick O’Leary’s The Gift, quite possibly my most favorite book…

Still trying to decide what to say about Barbara Kingsolver’s latest essay collection, Small Wonder. She says everything I wish I could say, and better than I could hope to…

The pictures from our excursion to the National Botanical Garden are back, and I have lots to upload if only I could find the time…

Finally made it out to Tunnels. I found it less then it’s cracked up to be since I spent all my time fighting a current and seeing nothing. Ian, on the other hand, saw a reef shark…

Gave up reading I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down. While excellently written, it’s enormously depressing. All of the characters are the down-and-out sort who have never had a break, and the stories seem to find them as they are reaching the end of their ropes…

Have begun the packing and shipping process for our return to the mainland. I find I am blindly optimistic, despite everything I know about life and reality, that this move is exactly what is necessary. That on the other side of it I will find creativity, productivity, stability, balance, good habits, less stress. Sometimes naivete is a blessing…