It’s August and the doggone heat is on full blast in Connecticut. We had a record number of days in July over 90º and August apparently wants to follow suit with temps closer to 100º. Will somebody, please, call off the contest! I’m breaking a daily sweat yet go to the gym only three mornings a week. The upside – my pores are fully flushed out. But, the heat does put a damper on my enthusiasm for doing some things… Read more »

It’s two weeks since the Summer solstice occurred, a revered event even if not a Hallmark occasion. The longest light day of the year signifies the astronomical beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere. For me, it’s more about the amount of light the summer solstice provides. The more the better. That doesn’t mean I don’t like night, or Fall or Winter. Oh contraire, since it is at night and the longer darkness that belongs to the latter seasons of… Read more »

Circles, there’s no getting ‘round it – for eons they’ve symbolized cycles, unity, wholeness, infinity. I get it. There is something subliminally satisfying about a round, its seemingly effortless completeness is endless. Even a musical “round”, a perpetual canon, has unity and wholeness. As each individual singer starts the same melody at a different time then continues repeating it over and over, the overlapping lyrics and notes are woven into audible cycles that insinuate infinity. It’s all at once pleasing,… Read more »