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Friends
“....If you count on other people to be faithful friends, online or in real life, you’re going to be sadly disappointed. Only a precious few stay the course with you. That’s been the case for m...
Dementia journal, Aug. 14, 2014
"Am I okay?" "Yes, Mom, you're okay," I reply somewhat wearily. "Is everything okay?" "Yes, Mom." This goes on and on. She is okay, as far as I know. I checked her vitals, gave her insulin...
On the idealization of childhood
"...I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. And not only this is true, but as far back as I can remember I have unconscio...
Tapping the memory vault: crepe myrtles in summer bloom
There are a lot of things New Orleans and Charleston have in common: both are flat and at or near, or even below sea level, in the case of New Orleans. Both have a hot, subtropical climate in ...
Sometimes the simplest words are best
"Give me a road away from the crowd, Away from the noise and the race, And let me wander the quiet trail To a different time and place, Where miles are measured in valleys, And birches point t...
Sanctuaries for the soul
I was telling some one the other day that it is Nature -- for example, the solitude and peace found among the paths and trails at the gardens and parks I frequent -- that most fully restores my ...
Endings will become beginnings
One thing I am struck with these days is how complicated and rushed life seems to be. I know deep down that I can stop, slow down and concentrate on being in the moment, and then life seems to ...
The stillness of the deep countryside
"...I love driving from Sumter to Charleston... I avoid the interstates as much as possible taking less traveled highways through coastal plain farmland and some very pretty countryside. Big, ro...
Rains bring especially verdant Spring
It's astonishing and wondrous now to see how green and lush everything is now.. The trees are at that peak of new green that so refreshes the spirit. So also, the woods and garden at Magnolia P...
The annual Spring azalea pilgrimmage
Each Spring starting in mid-March, I begin my annual photo pilgrimmage at the gardens and parks in Charleston where this most magnificent flowering shrub dazzles the eyes with its brilliant pinks...
Sitting by the stream
"Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen." From "Open House for Butterflies" by Ruth Krauss Many years ago when I lived in Columbia, SC, I had an apartment surrounded by woods...
(Written on March 21) "...people suffering from dementia have the ability to feel the emotions of those around them, particularly those who have been closest to them, emotionally. "Reading" an...
New beginnings
The days flows by in fast currents, swiftly, unstoppable, inexorable, lost to time and memory for the most part because I have not taken enough time to think deeply about where I am going and wh...
All the signs point to Spring
I am so glad Spring is almost here after our unusually cold winter. Although the mornings have been quite cool, the days are warming up more and more in the afternoons. I drove out to Magnol...
Pitt Street Bridge Walkway and Charleston Harbor
There are so many extraordinary places to visit, walk and photograph in the Charleston area that I am amazed when I start frequenting one particular spot and wonder why I had not done so years ea...
Signs of spring at the garden bring relief
It was amazing after all the frigid weather in our area lately to walk the familiar trails at Magnolia Gardens and see, in addition to the abundance of camellias, azaleas starting to bud and bloo...
Away from everything
There was no other place this past weekend than Beidler Forest for a perfect retreat from the city and the stress of life as I now live it. At this magnificent sanctuary of thousands of acres I...
The mirror of time
Lately, I've had some strange sensations, and it's all part of getting older, being past 60 and noticing, more than ever before, people my own age, or whom I perceive to be my own age. For the...
Pictures of beauty in the midst of winter
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty." John Ruskin ''Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or...
Book Description
Short essays from the interior of my life.
