As carolers are to Christmas, so peepers are to spring. Nothing tells you the time has arrived like a chorus of full-throated singing. I heard this year’s line-up for the first time when I got home this evening. They sound good. Not too pitchy like you get with a lot of young singers. If there’s …
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A TOUCH OF SILVER: Springing To Life
I’ve secretly dreaded the arrival of April for a while now. Last year, that month ushered in unseasonably cold, wintery weather; a tough transition professionally; and the beginning of a nearly-five-month-long bout of depression. Any worries I had about personal history repeating have been replaced by a general sense of apocalyptic, existential dread, which, if …
A TOUCH OF SILVER: Walking the Tic Tac
This afternoon my wife and I went for a walk up our street, onto a nearby dirt road, and off into a gently sloping field. We took our old Pekingese, Sally, with us. It was about 30 degrees colder than yesterday, but not so cold that the time outside was miserable. Just on the bare-handed …
I Am Groot
I haven’t written much over the past two-and-a-half weeks. A few personal journal entries, but that’s about it. It’s fairly easy to connect that lack of writing to a two-fisted bout of anxiety and depression. I keep ping-ponging between the two, with occasional bits of focus on the present. I’m managing it all way better …
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