‘Breaking News!’ So began the card accompanying the bouquet of daisies just delivered to her door. ‘Stars are no longer available to purchase in the name of the one you love. ‘We apologize for the consternation that will no doubt accompany this announcement but we must inform all lovers and star gazers that all constellations, all […]
Letter: “Ordinary No, Really Don’t Think So”
He couldn’t afford much by which to express his love for her. He wanted to buy her the most beautiful and the biggest bouquet from among the many offerings from the shop where the sweet scents and the fragrances of spring time filled his senses. Fringed petals as if created by pinking shears; nodding bell-shapes; […]
Letter: My Beautiful, Precious Rose
The young man at the door asked bashfully if she wouldn’t mind having her picture taken holding the dozen red roses he’d just delivered from the local florist – bashful because she was beautiful, as were the flowers, and, well, would she mind? She smiled, and said “Why, of course!” Her eyes were so dark, […]
Letter: One Day
There’s a proverb, according to the Aramaic translation, which reads: “A house is built by wisdom and by understanding it is entirely put in good order. And the inner chambers are filled by knowledge with every possession, honor, and delight.” But it’s not brick and motor, cabinets and furniture, or trinkets of one kind or […]
Letter: I Love You To The Moon And Back
The night drew on. Darkness descended like a quilt and lay softly, a breeze gently rustling among the leaves that soon would carpet the ground in their Autumn beauty. The view from the window revealed a world slowly disappearing into a shadowless gloom. Restless, he turned away from the scene beyond the shutters, lost in […]
Letter: “I Was There With You On The Mountain”
There is no reception in the mountains. If you go there, for the most part, you are alone. That’s why you go. To be alone. Near the start of the trail, there are couples strolling, families sauntering, and tables on which the contents of picnic baskets are spreading. And there is the occasional solo hiker […]
Letter: “Mom, There Are Airplanes”
Once upon a time – and truth be told this story that follows happens time and time again because life, and love, and loss happens – there was a beautiful woman who was sad and despairing following the death of the love of her life. Meanwhile, miles and miles, impossible miles, far, far away in […]
Letter: Beauty Is Found In Simplicity
If you are very quiet, treading softly, watching carefully, listening closely, you may come around a bend in the trail and hear the low, cooing hum of the mother sooty grouse – appropriately called given its intricate camouflage – calling, scolding really, for its twin little ones to please report to their mother – as […]
Letter: Fairytale Moments, Magical Places
One of the fun things my wife and I loved to do was take the next road off to the left or to the right, the three criteria being that the road was (a) a country road; and that (b) we had enough gas to get to wherever the road was leading, and back; and […]