When traveling alone in a foreigh country and you need a hand someone generally shows up. It must be an unspoken law of the universe. Someone will be by your side just when you want to scream out to the world, “HELP! I can’t read this map. The street names are driving me crazy. [...]
Ah, yes, being in the country is a source of delight. However, there’s one aspect that isn’t a source of delight. In fact, I see no reason for its creation. Nada! The creek is beckoning to me; it needs a little clearing and tender care, and the large brown fallen leaves have to be plucked [...]
It takes a bit of effort to let go of stuff circulating in our head- so many thoughts held onto for dear life. I’m weeding in the Catskills and have been thinking that, for the most part, what we (may I say we?) think we know comes from here, there and everywhere. I wonder what [...]
Time spent in the Catskills – so close to Manhattan, yet so far away, without newspaper, television, radio, or car is quiet time. Here it’s seven miles to the nearest town. I stay put enjoying the numerous, beautiful massive trees surrounding the house; and the woods inviting me to walk into them to explore; and [...]
ALIEN DAWN An Investigation into the Contact Experience, by British author Colin Wilson, is a book I got for my birthday. In Chapter 1 he writes that at one time he was “totally uninterested in news items about flying saucers.” Somewhere along the way, that changed for him.
Before I began reading ALIEN DAWN, my [...]