It caught my attention, randomly, early one morning. Recently. Peacefully. I wander the city each morning. I look for alterations to my landscape. Bare witness. No point in walking if you don’t see. Changes; graffiti to some, a symbol to others. Proof. Peace. It meant something to someone that they would take the time to […]

Walking home yesterday with my morning coffee, I watched the man ahead of me in the intersection bend over and pick up an empty plastic soda bottle from the street.    He then not only stepped over to pick up a flattened paper coffee cup next to the curb, he continued stepping along the sidewalk […]

It has become a habit of mine, or a personal ritual, to make an annual list about this time of the year.    Each of the past three or four years, I’ve taken an ordinary sheet of paper and marked a line down the middle. It serves as a review.    On the left-hand side […]