The Green Every year, in early Spring, Astrid panics, just a little, about The Green. Unreasonably. Consistently. For a little over half a century, The Green had always come back. Every year. After winter. But she can’t help think, and worry, for a fleeting, horrific moment, that it might not. And, then, when it spreadsContinue reading “Chlorophyll Addict”
Category Archives: Reading, Writing and Thinking
Writing From the Side of a Mountain
Prelude to WA: Climbing Mountains “You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber line, but you will see the stars and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed, or at least in your grave. – John Muir, “Yellowstone, North Dakota” an essay in Wilderness EssaysContinue reading “Writing From the Side of a Mountain”
Beautiful Nothing
This blog entry was published on July 28, 2011, on AJ Tanek’s Blogspot Blog. On the morning of our second day in Nevada, my husband, son and I left the glittering replicas and showy sin of Las Vegas and drove to Hoover Dam. There we spent a few hours paying homage to that extraordinary feat ofContinue reading “Beautiful Nothing”
Why Remember?
In Why Write?, Astrid tried to answer the question, “Why write?” for herself. She wrote to be a better thinker, because writing well takes more thought than speaking. But she also wrote to remember. And, as is many times the case, answers lead to more questions. “Why remember?” Why did she carry a pencil andContinue reading “Why Remember?”
Not I 