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...
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OWLcourage
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Phyllis Kritek
- Mar 23, 2022
- 4 min
OWGs
The global pandemic-induced deconstructions (and some new constructions) continue to emerge, fascinate and inform me. One has caught my...
Phyllis Kritek
- Mar 16, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
Questioning
As the nervous exploration of our country’s flirtation with authoritarianism bubbles up in a variety of media, the embedded value...
Phyllis Kritek
- Mar 7, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 22, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 17, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 15, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 8, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 3, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 28, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 19, 2022
- 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,...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 18, 2022
- 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....
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 11, 2022
- 3 min
Color Coding
The most concise and compelling deconstruction of “Race in America” I ever personally experienced was a conversation with my then...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 7, 2022
- 2 min
Fire & Ice
I walk every morning, drive a quick seven miles to the Rocky Fork Metro Park where an asphalted trail winds through a relatively untouched...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Beginnings
As the New Year emerges, so also does this first blog posting. The photo is daybreak in my backyard, the sun pushing through heavy fog....
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