Seeking Compromise — in the Capitol, and in the Home too

It’s uncanny sometimes how events happening in the big wide world can be mirror images, at once identical and turned around, of events happening by the hearth. This week, I’m trying to figure out whether we have anything to learn from the government shutdown or the government shutdown has anything to learn from us. Washington D.C. is still in a “stalemate” – not really news at all, I guess.  Over in Egypt, they’re in one too, and that one is … Read More

March in Limbo

Houses have a stay-in-one-place, rooted quality to them.  Life, on the other hand, is mostly made up of transitions, mood changes, shifts large and small.  Or at least this is how it looks to me from my current perspective.  And my current perspective is no doubt only enhanced by the particular season we’re in now. Has there ever been a better example of a limbo time than the whole month of March?   Yesterday, the poem of the day on “The … Read More

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