I’m often asked how I chose the name, Dancing Birds, for my blog. My standard answer has always been because I recognize that we’re all like little birds, dancing through our days, and hopefully doing so with a song on … Continue reading
Hindu devotees played with color yesterday during celebrations of Holi, the festival of colors, in the streets near the Bankey Bihari Temple in Vrindavan, India. The festival is meant to welcome spring and win the blessings of gods for good … Continue reading
I love how when someone mentions something about themselves that is honestly a little weird and ridiculous and, before I can stop myself, I blurt out, usually with a silly grin, “Hey, me too!” I’d so much rather stay private … Continue reading
I cannot get these two words out of my head. Two small, very simple words. Take care. That’s what a cashier said to me a couple days ago as I completed my transaction and started to push my grocery cart … Continue reading
The phone call came late afternoon. Unexpected. Urgent. Dan’s niece had been involved in a horrid car accident and she wasn’t expected to make it. Could we come? Now? We packed quickly, gravely, weighing whether we should fly or drive … Continue reading
I’ve been quiet lately, these last days of winter. Now, mid-February and, with its 78F degree days, Phoenix is rapidly moving toward another long and endless summer. Our few winter days seem to number less and less each year. It’s … Continue reading
And now my hands are breaking. Fitting that they should Change, Each little finger looking a different way, bending awkwardly toward a Future … Of different, but not less. ~ Auburn McCanta This just to mention that my little fingers … Continue reading
I’ve been quiet lately. Have you noticed? Since the birthday marking the start of my Purple Years, as I shall call them, I’ve been especially inward. Thoughtful. Within my innards, I’ve shuddered and clanked and reeled and pondered about what … Continue reading
Birthdays. We celebrate them, we avoid them, we call them “just another day,” we make surprise parties for others over them. We gush over birthday cards and make grand wish lists. We are gaga over birthdays. Gaga, that is, until … Continue reading
I have no pictures today. No snappy words. Nothing. Instead, my heart is with the Haitians right now and especially with those who are still trapped inside what used to be a home or school or office or hospital. There … Continue reading