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Category Archives: Maryland

  • You Were There   In March, before the young leaves, up come the shoots and petals; a bee’s imagination is loosened.   When day equals [...]

    “You Were There”

    April 12, 2012
  • When I was in eighth grade I was required to read a short story called “The Man Without A Country.” I remember being struck by the [...]

    “The Man Without A Country”

    April 10, 2012
  • Every Spring I find myself homesick for Sugarloaf Mountain. What I think I miss the most about it is feeling Spring’s arrival there. The [...]

    An April Evening at Sugarloaf Mountain

    April 9, 2012
  • Looking out over the snowless fields and lawns I find myself thinking about what Winter is about. Right now it is grey and sitting around the [...]

    We Need (more) Trees

    February 3, 2012
  • Everywhere that I have ever lived seasonal change has been marked. When each season turns over I feel it and notice the impact it has on my [...]

    Seasonal Change

    January 8, 2012
  • Today is the first day this month that has really felt to me like December, like Winter and like the holiday season. We’ve been having [...]

    Winter Came Today (but will it stay?)

    December 18, 2011
  • Years ago I read Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero’s Journey which is an account of his life and work but also a really engaging story [...]

    Maybe words will lead the way

    November 22, 2011
  • Oceans I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! [...]

    Juan Ramon Jimenez “Oceans”

    September 26, 2011
  • Driving to and from Central Maryland you cross and recross a marked boundary (there are signs along the highway) known as the Chesapeake Bay [...]

    Chesapeake Country

    September 24, 2011
  • The Machine The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field And carries passengers brief rides, Buzzed overhead on the tender blue [...]

    Robinson Jeffers “The Machine”

    September 24, 2011

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