We’re all interconnected, like beads collected and woven into something unexpected.

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Good Afternoon Everyone! I am feeling a little abstract today…

Thoughts are swirling around in my head, not unlike an experience I had with a vase of tulips a few days ago. I had been taking photos of the double white tulips opening in my sunny desk window, and I had my camera at hand. After taking some photos, I sat down at my desk and looked into the bottom of the blue glass vases. I noticed there were a lot of bubbles around the base of the inside of vase, and on the tulip stems. I picked up my camera and focused my lens. What I saw through my lens, was vastly more interesting than what I saw with my eyes. Not only were there bubbles, but the bubbles also formed lines.

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I mentioned in a post on Facebook earlier today that I saw a flock of cedar waxwings in my neighbor’s holly bush earlier today. I managed to grab my camera and open the porch window and catch a couple of decent shots with 300mm zoom.

I can’t see a cedar waxwing without my memory kicking in to hear my mom declare many decades ago, “Oh, a cedar waxwing!” as we were driving through the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.

I like to call the cedar waxwings “little masked marauders,” as they fly around in flocks looking for berries to eat. What a treat to see these beauties today in the cold artic like winds.

The cedar waxwings a one of my favorite woodland birds.

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Greetings of the Day to All… Here in coastal Massachusetts the winds have been wicked all day.

I’ve been trying to keep busy around the house today, rather than sit long at my west facing desk, where the wind feels like there’s little wall between us.

I fear if I sit too long my back and hip won’t approve. I sit a bit and I’m up again, pacing about in my little apartment. If it were bigger, I might get more steps in on my Fitbit everyday! I’ve been thinking a lot about Spring of late… Who hasn’t been? I’m looking forward to a little warmer temperatures and sunny days so that I can get out and walk again. And then it will be time to garden.

I hope this day has been good for everyone. It’s been a long haul, this pandemic. That’s been on my mind a lot of late, as it’s been close a year now for us all. I am reminded today of these lines from Samuel Beckett: “Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

Blessings of the day to all…

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Greetings of the Day Everyone… It’s another dreary day here in coastal Massachusetts. I’m listening to blue jays calling in the back yard, while I sit here at my desk. Blue jays can be very loud and really make a ruckus at times, but I adore them, despite their tendency to also be trouble makers with other birds. So today, I’ll just take a moment to remind you all, to not be like the blue jay, making trouble. Instead, be kind to one another. A simple gesture of kindness goes a long way in these pandemic times.

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A year ago, I applied for an MFA in Creative Writing at a local university. I was rejected (re: large pool of applicants), but encouraged to apply again this year. I applied again in January feeling hopeful with a stronger personal statement and writing sample.

Yesterday, I was rejected again (re: large pool of applicants). Given my age, I imagine that most or all of the applicants are much younger than me, though not any more qualified academically or a better writer than me. Not to mention, possessing the life experience I do.

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