https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436819 (In Public Domain) Second Granddaughter - 09/20/20 …so here she was, now fourteen, all dressed up, ready for the party, her party, of course, not really the one she wanted, but nevertheless, the one she was going to, all arranged in her honor,...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437131 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Fourth Sister - 10/05/20 …and, yes, he was right, there was something refreshing and even quietly breathtaking - deeply calming - about the beauty of the trees, of the oaks,...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435882 (In Public Domain) Fifth Sister –10/24/14 …and then, well, really, she just didn’t want to rearrange the fruit in the fruit bowl and that’s all there was to it, so there! Ha! She can live her very well own life anyway she wants to and anyone...
When we move away from the old, when we grow in new directions, when we grow out of and away from the ashes of old or damaging and debilitating thinking, or ways and paths of spiritual untruth, or intellectual and emotional quicksand, it also becomes necessary to build new structures, and new ways...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437136 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Fourth Granddaughter – 05/11/21 …and she was so happy to be at the beach, and she said to her brother, who was younger than her and did not yet see all things she would see, she...
Sitting on the small, two-drawer chest somewhat in the middle of my study, is the small, brown, ring box, now worn and faded in places, that my mom’s engagement ring eventually came to rest in – a ring of 22k gold, my mom said, with three good-size sapphires and little diamonds in between - the...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437879 (In Public Domain) Third Granddaughter - 09/28/20 …and as she gazed at her finished portrait, she was pleased, more pleased the longer she beheld it, not even hearing the painter…hmm, a nice looking young man, but still too old for her, one...
In June 2021, a close friend and I got together twice, once for morning coffee, once for lunch. The times together with this friend were always enjoyable, but until these two meetings, our times with each other had been suspended for more than a year by the pandemic. During our times together, we...