Category Archives: Freedom

Free My Feet!

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Touch2Touch

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 →

Posted in Challenge, Freedom, Health, Wonderings | Tagged Comfort, Feet, Servants, Shoes | 28 Comments

In Solidarity

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Touch2Touch

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

Second Guessing: The War Within

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Touch2Touch

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

“Growing Down”: Moving from MORE to LESS

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Touch2Touch

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

What Matters in the End?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Touch2Touch

Here is one answer, from playwright, author, actor Alice Childress: “Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.” And here is another, from … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Definitions, Democracy, Freedom, Life and Death, Personal Essay, Quotes | Tagged Bible, Compassion, Dogs, Help, Human Beings, Kindness, Poetry | 24 Comments

No Second Chances? Who Says? (for the record)

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Touch2Touch

FIFTY YEARS AFTER FIRST VISIT, WRITER SETTLES INTO LIFE IN NORTHAMPTON (reprinted from the Hampshire Gazette) Judith Bruder at her home in Northampton. CAROL LOLLIS, photo Choices, even major life choices, are often made for the flimsiest reasons. And, … Continue reading →

Posted in Etcetera, Freedom, Happiness, Home, Memory, Personal Essay, Pioneer Valley, Writers | Tagged Choice, College, Home, Memoir, Memory, Smith | 20 Comments

A Sort-of-New Year’s Resolution

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Touch2Touch

I have hooded eyes. Lots of people do. Perhaps you who are reading this are doing so with your own hooded eyes. I only know about them, though, because my grandmother had them. Not only do we share hooded eyes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Enlightenment, Etcetera, Evolution, Freedom, Personal Essay, Wisdom | Tagged Family, Grandmothers, Hooded Eyes, Inheritance, Jealousy, Personal Essay, Religion | 32 Comments

FREEDOM FROM WANT

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Touch2Touch

This has been the iconic American Thanksgiving feast since the painting first appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. Painter Norman Rockwell was inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union address in 1941 about the … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Democracy, Etcetera, Freedom, Friendship, Happiness, Home, Paintings | Tagged Icons, Norman Rockwell, Painting, Thanksgiving, USA, War and Peace | 13 Comments

HEAVEN IS —

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Touch2Touch

I’m a simple soul, and Heaven to me is getting off the WordPress spam list so that I can once again visit and comment on my friends’ blogs, instead of being a pariah and having my words sent to oblivion … Continue reading →

Posted in Angels, Etcetera, Freedom, Life and Death, Poetry | Tagged Heaven, Hell, Poetry, Sartre | 25 Comments

A Christmas Story Footnote: Me and Medusa?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Touch2Touch

The comments on recent A Christmas Story — Kind Of were funny and interesting and ultimately provocative. Why did it take me four tries to post a Self-Portrait on sister blog A View from the Woods that showed more than a shadow, … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Etcetera, Freedom, Paintings, Wonderings | Tagged Medusa, Myth, Self-Portrait, Women | Leave a comment