When I was in college, my Mom would send me care packages. I now know she must have been going through empty nest syndrome as one by one, year by year, her three kids fledged. As the last, I may have benefitted the most. Being the only daughter may have helped, too. Plus, at the…
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Writing in the time of COVID-19: Day Thirty Six
Today, we’re celebrating ‘Ōhi‘a Lehua Day, and I’m writing about trees for the third day in a row. (Don’t worry; I’m not sharing poetry again today!) We planted a two-foot-tall ‘ōhi‘a (Metrosideros polymorpha) in our yard about a year ago. As I tend to do, I use natural fertilizer to give the trees a head…
Writing in the time of COVID-19: Day Thirty-Five
“It’s gray here,” I texted my friend Anne this morning. We often write together virtually first thing in the morning. “How are things in your neck of the woods?” “Sunny,” she replied. Anne lives in California. “Birds are singing.” “Here, too,” I wrote. “I can’t imagine a world without birds,” she said. “Our first line…
Writing in the time of COVID-19: Day Thirty-Four
I’m thinking about trees. Appropriate for Earth Day + one. Appropriate also for the days leading up to ‘Ōhi’a Lehua Day this Saturday. I think about trees every day, all day. I talk about trees every day, all day. My job is to think and talk about trees all day, five days a week. In…
Writing in the time of COVID-19: Day Thirty-Three
Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I don’t remember what I was doing on April 22nd in 1970. I was seven years old living in a split-level home in the western suburbs of Chicago. We had a dog named Missy and were a few years away from adding Patches the rabbit to our…
Writing in the time of COVID-19: Day Thirty-Two
The morning started overcast when I opened the drapes to greet Kalalea, the mountain across the street. I’ve been thinking about a question my friend Lynette asked on her blog the other day. “Tell us how self-isolation has affected you,” she wrote. It’s a question I get asked over and over—from friends, from my Dad,…
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