With an extreme cold weather alert outside, and a good stock of leftovers inside, I enjoyed a lazy, bookish Boxing Day. Looking out the window, I realized that, every day of every winter, I keep a running check on the weather, to inform an internal anxiety meter: is today a day that weather may take the life of a fellow citizen on our streets? Continue reading “Anxiety meter”
Wait
The pork is being chopped
and the bok choy wokked
You’re bringing home dinner
to feed the mewling mouths at home,
but
for now – right now –
the bustly, rushy go-go-go world –
the world
needs
you
to
wait. Continue reading “Wait”