As I walk I carry your kindness with me.        As I walk along the river, letting it carry my feelings that are too heavy, holding on to your kindness instead.     A reflective sacred time.…

Today is Annie's birthday, it is also Mother's Day in France and yesterday evening Annie went into intensive care. I long for her to have peace.  I pray for gentleness. My thoughts only hold her. Annie, my dear Annie. (Thank…

      Down by the river, beyond the gate,  a dirt path winds this way and that, between the chestnut trees, the sunlight filters through the leaves, creating lace-like shadows on the ground. The water rushes by and it…

  Added a rug. I guess when the walls, cupboards, drawers, tabletops… cannot hold anymore the floor becomes the newest center piece.     When we renovated our kitchen I had the carpenter cut a long narrow horizontal line along…

  The mask, looks like something someone would wear to the Venetian carnival. I do not understand why the eye part is open? Looking at old images from another time is a good way to learn about history, especially when…

  Driving around the countryside in the Luberon: Goult and Lacoste. Enchanting this time of the year. Mild weather, not to hot. Poppies everywhere considering it was a mild winter with just enough rain and a gentle May. The cherry…