Park Walk 4.14

I’ve often felt I was the slowest one on this path,there are bikes, skateboards, scooters, and electric versions of the sameeven moms with carriages, a few walkers and walking sticks, there are fast walkers, dog walkers, and runners to bootand they all seem to pass me at one point or another. nowi’m not complaining, I’m […]

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Its spring here, finallythe Ash and Oregon Oak branches are leafingthe Great Horsetail shoots up in droves in the tree understorey,and spreads its spores, as it has done for over 100 million years,in among low leafing herbaceous Hydrophyllum which fills much ground on both sides of this shaded path,the air is perfumed with bud and

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April 9th becomes personal

Time has gotten the best of me lately. I am therefore two weeks late in posting this, but it is no less emotional.I have been following Tod Maffin (https://www.instagram.com/todmaffin/)(https://bsky.app/profile/todmaffin.com) recently. Most recently due to the authoritarian coup that has overtaken the country of my birth. There are times when his sarcastic Canadian humor is a

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Park Walk March 17th

I didn’t find any pot of gold, although the sky was golden in it’s own way When someone leaves food by turtle pond, all the residents come ashore, including Canadian geese, Wood Ducks, and some curious helmetted kids Each day now, it seems, new trees push out their buds. Today I noticed catkins hanging in

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Park Walk March 14

it got icy cold again, after some spring like temps in the mid 50°’s. I’m walking with a neck wrap and my knit cap in 41° drizzle…with wind.walking is reality filled with sanity, fresh breathe shared with the trees, meditative mind wanderings.there are beautiful tiny upside down white flowers, bursting from the wispy cluster of

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