This Day at Bayeux

| April 1, 2020

I Will Continue to Walk As I walked the stone markers I read their names…ranks, dates and inscriptions of those who fell. I breath deeply…release the air slowly taking in another life and think…not any thought in particular…but perhaps share in a bit of aged sorrow, once felt….now felt again for a life lost… I […]

Are there Poppy Blooms in France and Flanders?

| March 31, 2020

I wonder… Each night I walk. A steady jaunt through the neighbourhood, choosing to walk when fewer people are about…there is less risk that way. As I walk the road the 7 PM salute to our first responders builds. I watch as one curious robin hops across a lawn, his ear openings wizened to these […]

Inspired By a True Story

| March 30, 2020

Introducing a new series… The other day I wrote all blossoms are perfect, nonetheless I will always continue my search in awe of each petal, each burst of new life, new joy, new inspiration. In these current days of complication, I also turn to the history of others whose resilience in adversity was noted, recorded […]