11/18/2023
Having wild Berry Lavender ice cream with my parents Ribbon Rose wedding silver in memory of the 25th anniversary of the day my father died. It’s also the birthday of Bethany Rehberg. Wild berry Lavender seems right for her too. We will carve open the pomegranate later.
12/24/2022
It’s Christmas Eve Eve and a feet up Friday. Nicci Church brought cups one Saturday and packets of hot chocolate mix. We were either celebrating or just trudging. I don’t remember which. I just remember it filled my heart. Being here with Nicci’s cup of peppermint tea brings a sense of balance to my life of great sorrow and great joys. Enchantment and sheer terror. Tears and much laughter.
07/19/2016
There are many, many ways to say "I love you". Pretty soon loves floods in and lasts forever.
In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, white flight, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide.
A brand new children's show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood introduced Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who was a kindly, responsible authority figure, kept his neighborhood safe, and was Mr. Roger's equal, colleague and neighbor.
Around the first anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him in soaking their tired feet in a plastic wading pool. And there they were, brown feet and pasty white feet, side by side in the water. Silently, contemplatively, without comment.
25 years later, when the actor playing Officer Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited that same wading pool, this time reminiscing. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he'd been thinking during their silent interlude a quarter century before. Fred Rogers' answer was that he'd been thinking of the many ways people say "I love you."
- Carl Aveni
07/18/2016
The idea behind Fox Hall was a place of all sorts of creativity and partnerships between people to give vision and voice to include more voices. Not angry voices of oppression and exploitation but the voices of insight, love, humor and hope that free us to be our true selves.
07/05/2016
It may not be you.
While many of us struggle with depression, I think the greater majority of us struggle with reality; a depressing reality, and accepting the fact that life is flooded with injuries and insensitivity that we, as INFJs, can do little overcome.
06/11/2016
The Power Of Paint
Read how Science is changing the way we think about art.