Monthly Archives: November 2011

To Be or Not to Be

If you’re reading Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons as a lunar calendar with me this year, it’s the full moon, time for Beaver Moon—The Suicide of a Friend. This is not a pleasant subject, but, like many of her poems about … Continue reading

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Listening to Silence

Living fairly far from other people as we do, we are surrounded by “silence.” I’ve noticed this much more lately, spending so much time alone. I quote “silence,” because in nature, that’s a relative term. In the winter months, with … Continue reading

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