“Place is an environment claimed by emotion.” -Anonymous On the summer solstice I drove through the borderlands of southwest Texas, long...

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller When was the last time you drove twelve hours in one day and old...

Walk around feeling like a leaf. / Know you could tumble any second. / Then decide what to do with your time. - Naomi Shihab Nye This...

Sometimes all it takes is…one beautiful wrist movement synchronized with the head and heart…” – Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler...

Five weeks after arriving back home from a month in Spain and France, I am finally giving in to false starts and indecision concerning...

“This is good advice for life in general. Look up from the screen. Who knows, in looking one another in the eyes again, we might begin to...

On a visit to Mexico City this past weekend the fact of seven billion humans (and counting) struck me as I stared down a long boulevard,...

Due to the present workload, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice. — Sign in Hobo’s Café in North...

“Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape.” — Betsy Shirley (foster mother to more than 20 boys, including Buck...

“Sustainability is rooted in looking to the inherent workings of nature as a model, with the idea that the natural systems of the world...