December 2024

Recently, navigating my way through this fraught season, I decided to find and record at least one thing I'm grateful for each day, as well as one thing of beauty. Today, I'm grateful that some much-needed rain has arrived. I can almost feel the earth lapping it up. Simply listening to it from inside my warm house somehow quenches my thirst. I am grateful, also, for my warm house. 

As I struggle with life's many paradoxes, I continually revisit some of James Baldwin's words. They've become my touchstone for gaining perspective and maintaining grit and hope in the face of societal challenges. Perhaps they'll help others too. He wrote:

“Nothing is fixed forever.... the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.”

How we handle the inevitable troubles in our world is our witness to our children and grandchildren, so let’s tend to each other for a better, kinder, more humane future for all.

On a more mundane note, I do have some writing news which you can find here.

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