by Carole Duff | Aug 27, 2012 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
This past weekend at Vanaprastha, rain gently soaked the mountain landscape. Water dripped off gable ends, travelled through gutters and drainpipes and coursed down ditches along the driveway. During downpours, gullies also appeared, moving organic debris, soil and...
by Carole Duff | Aug 13, 2012 | Nature, Writing and Reading |
How to grow up in one piece, a 40-page book of quirky advice about people and everyday things, is one of my all-time favorite books. Read by adults but written as if for the uninitiated, that is, for children, Robert Paul Smith’s humor permeated my youth in the...
by Carole Duff | Jul 17, 2012 | Family, Nature |
Have you ever been driving along in a rain shower, which suddenly turns into a blinding, thundering downpour? It’s not as if you didn’t see the storm coming. There had been plenty of warning. Looking out your bedroom windows while getting dressed for dinner, clouds...
by Carole Duff | May 29, 2012 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Nature |
This weekend, during our routine pre-sunrise walk, Heathcliff and I found a box turtle making her way across the rarely travelled, gravel turn-around. Perhaps the turtle sought shelter in the accumulated leaves and mud on the other side, a place to lay her eggs or to...
by Carole Duff | May 14, 2012 | Family, Nature |
Last week, I spent time with my mother, helping her sort clothes, pictures and other items in her home of almost 60 years, the home where she raised her children and hosted her grandchildren, and now the home she is leaving. It is time for another young family to...
by Carole Duff | Apr 23, 2012 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Writing and Reading |
Sometimes my mind gleefully races into the future with far too much abandon. And many of the stories that I talk and write about deal with the past, which at times traps my thoughts in seemingly endless recital. Do I ever live in the present? I went to sleep on Friday...
