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Category Archives: Challenge
Notes from Inside a Black Hole
Serious illness, like a black hole, draws everything into itself. Energy, creativity, enthusiasm, all the factors essential to blogging, are subsumed and nothing is left outside. Which explains where I’ve been for so long. Not my illness, but the Hub’s. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Flowers, Happiness, Health, Life and Death, Quotes, Wisdom
Tagged Black Holes, Courage, Health, Wisdom
29 Comments
Free My Feet!
Viewpoint: my feet, from the podiatrist’s chair. After supporting me so faithfully for so many decades, the right and the left ones both show signs of wear and tear. Like my old Subaru, they need regular maintenance, and then some. … Continue reading
In Solidarity
Today in Paris, the other shoe dropped. The satirical cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo has been under threat for years now from militant Islamists for “blasphemy.” Their offices have been bombed, and the editor, Stephane Charbonnier, has lived since 2011 with a personal bodyguard. … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Definitions, Freedom, Life and Death, Personal Essay, Quotes
Tagged Blood, Evil, Freedom, Good, History, Hubris, Islam, Journalism, Martyrdom, Massacre, Paris, Terrorism
36 Comments
Fear Not!
Yesterday the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico netted a cool $44.4 million at auction for one of their masterpieces, O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed. That more than doubled the amount ever paid for a work by a female artist, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Challenge, Flowers, Paintings, Quotes, Wisdom, Wonderings
Tagged Art, Doubt, Fear, Female artists, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paintings
32 Comments
Second Guessing: The War Within
I have a tiny whisper that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of it is more than I can see. (with apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson) My tiny whisper goes in and out with me, such a steady … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Challenge, Doubt, Failure, Freedom, Mindfulness, Personal Essay, Wisdom
Tagged Evil, Freedom, Good, Jung, Mindfulness, Psychology, The Shadow
27 Comments
A New Strain: “Last Gasp” Morning Glories!
When my gardening neighbor planted the vines on the other side of the trellis shared by our patios, I was delighted. The quickly climbing green leaves made no distinction between thine and mine. They clambered through the lattice to my side as … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Buddha, Challenge, Color, Flowers, Nature, Pioneer Valley
Tagged Expectations, Flowers, Gardens, Morning glories, New England
10 Comments
Not My Circus?
This morning, on fellow blogger Stef’s Daily Delights, I encountered this Polish proverb: Not my circus, not my monkeys! Well! I promptly decided to adopt the proverb as my mantra-of-the-day. Enough of the silliness, enough of the small stuff (I thought … Continue reading
Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone”
In T2T’s last post I wrote about our recent Dinner of the Cold Maidens, in which we introduced South African friends to the lavish and delicious open-face sandwiches known as Danish smorrebrod. An important part of the feast is its invariable … Continue reading
“Growing Down”: Moving from MORE to LESS
Remember when you were, oh, say, six years old? And then, just a few months after your birthday, you were already counting, “I’m six and a half. In just three months I’ll be six and three-quarters. I’m growing up!” Growing up. … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Etcetera, Freedom, Health, Personal Essay, Wisdom
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Growing Old, Growing Up, Lewis Carroll, Octogenarians, Through the Looking Class, Wisdom, Working Out
36 Comments
Riddle-Me-This
When Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus, the one who was so devoted to his mother) was a young man, he won a kingdom by answering a riddle. (Prizes on Jeopardy aren’t nearly so lavish.) The question was posed by the Sphinx, … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Enlightenment, Paintings, Poetry, Wisdom, Writers
Tagged Feminism, Muriel Rukuyser, Myth, Oedipus, Women
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