gratitude
This tomato kept my gaze for a long time recently before slicing it for a lunch. Its beauty. It color. Its nourishment. The tomato seems such a simple thing set…
discernment – only a gentle tug
Yesterday, like every other day in August, Kai and I stopped by one of the peach trees by the stables, on our afternoon walk to have a snack and swim.…
Love notes
My friends came over on multiple nights to drink beer, eat good food and help me to pack my home for the move from the Cathedral to Albuquerque Heading Home. …
enough, and with a side of salsa
One of my oldest and dearest friends joined me yesterday to help me put the house together. He has a good eye for space and design, and I have beautiful…
take and eat …this peach …on buttered cinnamon toasted bread
Kai and I have begun to fall into some routines. One is watching the sun rise to the accompaniment of the roosters which is, each morning, like an kind of…
The eighth day
One wonders what God did on the eighth day. We know that God rested on the seventh day and called it “Holy” which we also know was a word God…
God makes all things new
Over the years I am finding that the key to a haps life is gratitude for what one has before them. I am on an Island off the coast of…
The Pilgrimage within the Pilgrimage
A ten minute walk from the Saint Columba Hotel, where our little pilgrimage is staying next to the benedictine Abbey, is the Augustinian Nunnery (Convent) which are now in ruins…
The dog and the author
This is an oil painting of a Skye Terrier named Bobby. He lived as the companion of a police officer named John Grey whose beat was the Grassmarket between Greyfriars…
our inner tour-guide
I was once visiting a house museum and was taken on a tour by the museum tour guide whose job it was to take my ticket and show me around,…