03/11/02
A Ramble
Saturday morning, a fog rolled over the bay in time to paint the sunrise in pastels, but it dissipated into brisk reality before people with no dogs to walk nor weekend jobs to work nor problems sleeping were out to see it. And, as if the fog were the perfume-mist of spring, the air was thick with scents. An earthy brown, and the green smell of evergreen bushes — not those with the soft needles that I used to pluck while wandering around town looking for playmates in the summer time, but those with knotted fingers, pungent and spiked and painful to a boy’s uncallused fingertips.
This essay has been published in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01–10/21/02 and is available in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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02/11/02 Choice Means Considering Benefits and Costs (Abortion)
02/04/02 Parenthood: Making the World a Better Place (Family)
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