Tag: life
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Thanksgiving Eve

We awoke to fading overnight rain. For a brief time the sly partially cleared revealing a lovely winterish sunrise. I had to go into my primary care office for a routine blood draw and joined what became a longish line waiting outside for the lab to open. Fortunately the morning is on the warm side…
Michael Watson PhD
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Keeping Hope Alive

We awoke to deep chill. Nori wanted the door open and we wanted to be warm. Our compromise was for her to go out on the screen porch with the door shut. She did not stay out long. Today is another dry, cool day. We are told the weekend will be warm, and if the…
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Imagining Rosh Hashanah

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.” -widely attributed to Rabbi Tarfon who lived in the generation following the destruction of the second temple. I am…
Michael Watson PhD
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Road Block!

We had a passing shower late yesterday afternoon and another over night. Still, Jennie was out early this morning watering our very stressed young lilac. Here in New England drought conditions run from simply dry to extreme drought. The distance of a few miles can mean the difference between parched soil and almost normal growing…
Michael Watson PhD