Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? My mom read this poem to me as a kid what seems like a gazillion times, a gazillion years ago. I never once wondered what it meant. Now, I wonder. And I’m perplexed. Exactly WHY was Mary contrary? Contrary. Webster defines . . . Opposite. Incompatible […]
Hush!
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr. Killed. For having courage. To speak truth. About things that matter. The tower is tilting in Puerto Morelos. Built with ancient pyramid ruins. Set in shifting sand. Still standing. But what good is it? It has no […]
Holy New Year! (So Who’s Our Boss?)
“Happy New Year!” I’m still saying it back to people wishing me the same, this first full week of 2016. Everyone wants to be HAPPY. Blow the horns! Throw the confetti! Spread the cheer! Let them eat cake! And yet there’s a dark spot and it’s spreading wild. We sense it, don’t we? The creeping […]