Musings

7 Aug, 2020

Beach Reads Without the Beach

Nancy Admin2020-08-07T06:00:35+00:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Current Events, Film, home, Humor, Musings, Sheltering-in-Place, Summer|Tags: 50 Great Short Stories, Alec McCowen, Amazon Prime, amorality, beach reads, book clubs, censorship, Crest Theater, Fox Theater, Graham Greene, Hollywood, Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Motion Picture Production Code, Pursuit of Happiness, rambling, Somerset Maugham, technicolor, Travels With My Aunt, Zoom|

Last night I finished reading Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene. Things being what they are in the world, I’ve been having a bit of trouble focusing on anything [...]

10 Jul, 2020

Time to Re-Open Schools?

Nancy Admin2020-07-10T06:00:15+00:00Categories: Children, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Families, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Sacramento, Sheltering-in-Place, Teaching, Writing|Tags: Betsy DeVos, Classroom instruction, Corona Virus Testing, Health, Instructional Delivery, Poverty, Republican president, Schools|

This week when the Republican President and his entitled Secretary of Education demanded that public schools open full time/full service this fall, virus or no virus, OR they would lose [...]

3 Jul, 2020

Pray For Our Country

Nancy Admin2020-07-03T06:00:53+00:00Categories: 4th of July, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Grace, Grief, Holidays, Hope, Illness, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Soul, Spirituality, Summer|Tags: God, Prayer, religion, the nature of reality|

I had something else laid out and ready to go this week, but coming up on the Independence Day Holiday, I felt a need to say something more. When [...]

12 Jun, 2020

The Story of My Hydrangea Bush

Nancy Admin2020-06-12T06:00:26+00:00Categories: Books, Current Events, home, Light, Magical Realism, Musings, Poetry, Prayer, Teaching, Writing|Tags: angel, apparitions, Blessed Virgin Mary, contemplation, gardens, hydrangeas, Kate Farrell, Kenneth Koch, Poetry, sheltering in place, Sleeping On The Wing, slowness, temporal nature, Transfiguration, Writing|

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was dipping into Sleeping on the Wing by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell, an anthology of poetry and writing prompts written for [...]

29 May, 2020

Continued Sheltering, part three

Nancy Admin2020-05-29T06:00:27+00:00Categories: Books, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Poetry, Prayer, Sheltering-in-Place, Spirituality, Summer, Teaching, Writing|Tags: Dreams, Health, life, reading, Spirit|

Greetings! If you’re a regular reader, you know the past two weeks I’ve suggested some prayers that I’ve found helpful, and I continue to encourage everyone to write prayers and [...]

22 May, 2020

A Prayer for Trying Times

Nancy Admin2020-05-22T06:00:08+00:00Categories: Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Exercise, Grace, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Spring|Tags: Divinity, God, Meditation, Mindfulness, Prayer, Spirit|

This week I want to share a prayer my late friend Craig taught me. It’s very simple: “Release into Essence.” Essence was Craig's word for Divine Energy or God. It’s [...]

15 May, 2020

Sheltering-in-Place, part 2

Nancy Admin2020-05-15T06:00:24+00:00Categories: Covid 19, Current Events, Families, Grace, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Sheltering-in-Place, Spirituality, Writing|Tags: cats, Covid19, current events, Family, Prayer|

Greetings to everyone who is sheltering in place as I am. How are you? I am fine. There are many things we could complain about—and if that’s what you want [...]

17 Apr, 2020

The Bear, a sestina

Nancy Admin2020-04-17T06:00:14+00:00Categories: Grace, Joy, Magical Realism, Musings, Mythology, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Spirituality|Tags: bear, redwoods, river, west|

April is National Poetry Month, so I'll be posting a few poems this season. Currently I spend more time writing prose stories instead of poems, so it's been fun for [...]

27 Mar, 2020

Sheltering-in-Place

Nancy Admin2020-03-27T06:00:15+00:00Categories: Books, Coming of Age, Covid 19, Current Events, Grace, Grief, home, Hope, Illness, Magical Realism, Memory, Musings, Sheltering-in-Place, Spirituality, Writing|Tags: Aging, Dandelion Wine, Europe, fears, green and purple, Greenwich, healing, Memory, Ray Bradbury, sky, storm, weather, wisdom|

When I was 21 I went to Europe on a five-week student tour with my best friends. On our last day we were in England, and we went on a [...]

28 Feb, 2020

The World That We Knew, a review

Nancy Admin2020-02-28T06:00:44+00:00Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Current Events, Magical Realism, Musings|Tags: Alice Hoffman, Children's safety, golem, heron, Holocaust, Humanness, refugee crisis, Soul, The World That We Knew|

Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew” is an achingly beautiful fairy tale about the Holocaust. Her novel emphasizes the plight of children separated from their parents: Jewish children and [...]