Tag Archives: attachment
Catch and release
Because the hook is too cruel, I offer softer lures, chumming the surface of the rivers you love: the cathedral light, the refuge of rocks, the small ballet of water striders walking the sky of your shimmering world. From which I might lift you for an instant, to remember the iridescence of your delicate, dappled […]
Catch and release
Because the hook is too cruel, I offer softer lures, chumming the surface of the rivers you love: the cathedral light, the refuge of rocks, the small ballet of water striders walking the sky of your shimmering world. From which I might lift you for an instant to remember the iridescence of your delicate, dappled […]
Attached
I was all set to write my Thanksgiving post, but writing anything has been nearly impossible since this happened: I have fostered kittens before, successfully if that means getting them safely reared and placed in good homes, unsuccessfully if that means one of those homes should not be mine, which it was and which 9 […]
Goodbyes
It’s not true that goodbyes are always hard. But more often than not, they include an element of sadness and a kind of anticipatory missing that weights the heart. Such is the case with Taz, my Americana rooster, who — five months after he came to me as a fuzzy, allegedly female chick — was scheduled today to […]
Meditatio Ephemera 