Yin Yang
The picture above is the graphic image of the title of this blog: Yin Yang. Because I had committed to using only my own photography in...
OWLcourage
a blog invested in hope and creative possibility
- Aug 7
- 4 min
Walking Sticks for Elders
Above is a picture of my “walking sticks”, pretentiously posing under the signage explaining the history of Rocky Fork Metro Park in New...
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Humor 1.0
I picked this title, “Humor 1.0”, because on my personal list of concepts shaping my understanding of courage, humor is near the top. ...
- Jul 27
- 1 min
Change Happens
You may have noticed that this blog has a "new look"! I have switched platforms and happily feel this option is better for my purposes. ...
- Jul 15
- 3 min
Transitions
Transitions, in the broadest sense, (and the one I am discussing here), are generally understood to be the processes and/or periods of...
- Jul 9
- 3 min
Trifecta
Turns out that the Supreme Court’s action to eliminate a woman’s constitutional right to abortion was merely the “canary in the coal ...
- Jun 29
- 6 min
Churn
It is 1 AM, and I am finally writing this, a gesture of desperation since sleep eludes me. Churn refers to agitation, disturbance, ...
- Jun 21
- 4 min
Warriors!
The Golden State Warriors just won the NBA national championship. I wrote about my fascination with them while chronicling the strange...
- Jun 8
- 2 min
Fragrance
I learned, in searching for a title for this post, that aroma, scent and fragrance share meanings, however fragrance is usually reserved...
- May 30
- 3 min
Power
Early in my training to work in conflict resolution, I realized that most conflicts I encountered in my work were not about beliefs,...
- May 22
- 4 min
ESPN
I am a Golden States Warriors fan, largely a function of fascination with their culture shaped by their most recent NBA championship runs...
- May 12
- 3 min
Easement
The word easement has two distinctly different meanings. This is a story about the convergence of the two meanings: First Meaning – a ...
- May 4
- 4 min
Roe v. Wade
My first direct experience with abortion happened in 1966, eight years before the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling...
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Dawn
I start my day at my dining room table, looking eastward through glass doors to my back yard where Spring is currently laboring to...
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Really ?!!??
I entered the convent at the age of 16. Undeniably, this was an unusual place for rafting the developmental white waters of late...
- Apr 17
- 3 min
Normal
Prior to the Covid pandemic, there were observable and more subtle fissures in the fabric of life in the US. Many manifested as ...
- Mar 31
- 3 min
Words
My brother Bob, three years my senior, has been (and continues to be) a source of some of my most important life lessons, emerging from...
- Mar 24
- 4 min
OWGs
The global pandemic-induced deconstructions (and some new constructions) continue to emerge, fascinate and inform me. One has caught my...
- Mar 17
- 3 min
Green
I have spent about half of my life in climates with four clearly identifiable “seasons”, which for me includes my least favorite, the...
- Mar 16
- 3 min
Questioning
As the nervous exploration of our country’s flirtation with authoritarianism bubbles up in a variety of media, the embedded value...
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Ukraine
To even start this post makes me anxious, and yet, it is our current shared reality. I want to be respectful of the profound adversity...
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Millennials in the Air
As I noted when I started this blog, sometimes I will post poetry. That time has arrived, and a brief explanation may be useful. When I...
- Feb 17
- 4 min
80th Year
Today is my 79th birthday. When my older brother Bob achieved this milestone on his life journey, he reframed it, describing it as...
- Feb 15
- 3 min
"The Machine"
In the blank space in my “baby book” where mothers are asked to report their preschooler’s favorite activity, my mother wrote, about me...
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Tribes
Emerging into adulthood, I lived through the chaotic 60s, the reconstructed 70s and the strange arrival, in the 80s, of a surfacing...
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Patience
That’s a picture of my new garage door opener, a thing of beauty and joy. Let me explain. As we have collectively emerged from our...
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Healing, Part I
Last week, on January 21, 2022, we reached a landmark of sorts. Exactly two years prior the Centers for Disease Control confirmed the...
- Jan 19
- 2 min
...From the New York Times
I am deviating from my usual process today to share a video from the New York Times. The video revealed nothing I did not already know,...
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Control
At some time during the blur called grade school I remember realizing that all the books we were learning from were written by men....
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Color Coding
The most concise and compelling deconstruction of “Race in America” I ever personally experienced was a conversation with my then...