Category Archives: Explorations

Violets blooming in November in my parents west-facing landscaping Their bright purple like a firework against the frozen solid ground muted and fading greens of grass like the brightness of the green had a can of low white mixed in … Continue reading →

I remember snippets of our conversation that senior year spring break with Claire’s grandma down on some white sand beach in the bottom of Florida. All stretched out, nothing to do but make it back in time for 4pm high … Continue reading →

Learning about the precious Nano Chameleon – a new creature to western science – rushes back memories of basic biology. When the focus was on kingdom phylum class order family genus species subspecies. Where did this belong and that belong, … Continue reading →

When we decided to become a household of three, I didn’t think about auspicious days or the best time of year to be born, I didn’t think of zodiac signs and what is most compatible among the Lunar calendar’s animals. … Continue reading →

This body It’s amazing to me that when our bodies work the best When we’re young The muscles and sinews and fascia all flexible, fluid We don’t realize it, appreciate it, yearn for it For the ease Having muscle memory … Continue reading →

Back when we went places and did things, I hugged a panda. A Giant Panda. Well, it was the baby version. In the wintery city of Chengdu at the conservation and breeding center. As it was preoccupied with a carrot. … Continue reading →

Finally: rain The release The sky opening, unzipping, finally, under the weight of all that heaviness Hearing it in the distance, open notch by notch Falling out, billowing towards me From the horizon To now above me To the bath, … Continue reading →

The snow swirled around us, my Mom and me, as we slowly ascended the Santa Catalina mountains north of Tucson. January 2001. We were ill prepared in my little four-door Ford Taurus. I thought Tucson was sunny over 300 days … Continue reading →

i love this idea of living with purpose as the actual living itself. the breathing, the being, the showing up, the settling in, the doing. rather than the pressure and perfection and overdoing it until i’m out of steam, motivation, … Continue reading →

i’m the narrator, the main character, the protagonist of all of this. or i try to be.  it’s going to be a year like no other. isn’t that what we say every january 1? the resolutions, the betterments, the shedding … Continue reading →