Make a wish. Write it down on a piece of paper. Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree. Ask your friends to do the same. Keep wishing. Until the branches are covered with wishes.-Yoko Ono 1997
Welcome to my Wish Tree. Let’s build a forest.
Where Am I Today?
Where Am I Today-two poems written at the People's Music Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEdV-CPDFhU
Dayenu – Ode to Phillies Season 2022
Dayenu - It Would Have Been Enough November 6, 2022 Dayenu, is a well known song from the Passover Seder that reminds us to have gratitude along the way If the Players Union and owners had only finally struck a…
The Postseason Baseball Playoffs 2022
Phillies 2022 Red October Overview When I made plans for a visit to New York City for the weekend of October 21-23, 2022, the thought that the Philadelphia Phillies would still be playing baseball was-well-improbable. After all, with just 87…
Last Will dedicated to the children of Uvalde
A testament I bequeath all my worldly goods to my mother And father And big sister In the bottom drawer of my dresser You know the one under the window with the flowery curtains On top is the picture of…
For Troy Smith, Jr. On Viewing Your Likeness
I remember learning a typical museum visitor spends an average of 15 seconds looking at a work of art. I stop not to graze But feast in your eyes. In this graveyard of lives cut short I am stopped by…
Stream of Grateful Consciousness
Thanksgiving Nov 25, 2021 I am grateful for breath. For clean clothes and water, a neighborhood of trees, a block of generous lively neighbors, communities of justice-seeking loving human beings, access to other people’s pets, basic health, people to come to…
Clear and Present Danger
January 6, 2021 Today I cleared out a closet And read the Article of Impeachment Today I had a passport photo taken And watched pictures of the insurrection Today I sorted through papers And scrolled through one article after another …
Is brokeness beautiful?
In the basement of my Mt. Airy Philadelphia apartment where I lived from 1993-2003, the 8 x 8 foot storage area was stuffed with boxes that I hadn’t bothered to unpack for the entire 10 years that I lived there.…
One Trip from Pittsburgh
My father, David, loved to drive long distances. It was a joy he could indulge in frequently after we moved from Pittsburgh to Maryland when I was 10, the day that John Glenn went up in space. Traveling back several…
The Wedding Announcement
Granddaughter of Mildred and Max I picked up the accordion folder at the top of my basement stairs that had been in my sights for months. I knew it was full of papers, old papers, that I didn’t seem to…
One of Many Stories About Dance
From the age of five, I fell in love with dancing. It was and is one of my ways to express delight, joy, sorrow, sarcasm, silliness, drama. In other words, my innermost feelings. I began dancing at a simpler time…
How Baseball Saved My Life
The Sixth game of the 2010 National League Series was a disappointment for Phillies fans as we saw our World Series hopes be handed to the feisty San Francisco Giants. Certainly there is an endless variety of ways to say…