Toddlerhood does not necessarily end at a particular age, but we can recognize them by certain signs and behaviors. TODDLER’S RULES OF POSSESSION If I like it, it’s mine. If it’s in my hand, it’s mine. If I can take it from you, it’s mine. If I had it a while ago, it’s mine. If …
Author Archives: Ciel
Cleaning Up Our Mess
The world is in such a mess! It has always been messy, that’s nature, but mostly, prehistorically, when everyone lived in Jurassic Park, messes were local business: some moments of violence followed by inelegant feeding, and plenty of scavengers to clean up after. Humankind, we don’t confine our messiness to moments or a limited area, …
Mystic Whispers: On the Half Shell
Out of the sea on rising foamVenus emerges,makes herself at home, and the Gods all pause a moment to lookand admire and plan…and their canny brains cook… The Goddesses, too– they look and they seea sister to themand a rival-to-be… For the proper attentions, there must always be,to Wisdom, and to Fidelity. And Discord smiles to …
ReUse, ReImagine, RePurpose
SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF PLASTIC I save things that are not useless–though today I did unfriend and block a person on Facebook. I have bags and boxes loaded with medication bottles, protein supplement drink bottles, the big plastic flasks from cold brew coffee concentrate… Egg cartons, lots of egg cartons of the old paper kind …
The Downs Child
Some years ago I saw a drawing of a Downs child and began to consider my own thoughts and feelings about how I regarded such children, what it would be like to be the parent of one of these special people. These two poems came out of those ponderings. SLOW So steady and intent your …
Pinning Down ‘God’
PART ONE: DISTINGUISHING RELIGION FROM SPIRITUALITY It has been said that there are as many recipes for borscht as there are Russians. Of course, borscht is a matter of personal taste, and only really important to beet fanciers. If there are any wars fought over which borscht is best, they are probably very small, and …
Mueller testifies…
What the House Judiciary Committee members don’t seem to understand is that Americans watching are not only listening to the answers, we are paying close attention to the questioners and the kinds of questions they ask, their manipulative maneuvers, their willingness to actually listen to Mueller. He is not the one being judged here by …
The Damaged Heart
I’m sorry, I can’t love youlike a love should be…Out here I standbeyond the glass, the wall of distancebetween my heart and the world… Love’s sucha quiet subtle thingso easily drowned outby need and wantand hungers wailingfrom a time–the time when childrenlearn to loveby being loved. I’m sorrymy missing piecesmake this puzzlethat is loveforever incomplete…Yet I want to …
They’re at it again…
I know by the husky, come-hither cooing that the Eurasian Collared Doves are once more wooing… Three years ago, they discovered on the covered deck of my house, afixed to the boxy light fixture by the sliding door, a disused robin’s nest. Not as large as a dove’s nest ought to be, but a nest. …
Orcas and Others in the Wild
There seems to be a correlation between the state of emotions of the observer and the proximity of whales. I learned this years ago, when I was observing the wild whales and dolphins in the inland passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia. In the wild, orcas simply did not come around …
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