Tag: relationships

• March 4, 2023

  Insatiable

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. Last night, I went climbing with my friend S.  Climbing with her is always an adventure, and not because it’s climbing. Beyond navigating color-coded routes on brownish gray walls in a gym filled with adolescents, hanging by ones fingertips, inhaling chalk dust, and the elation of solving a problem by…
• March 2, 2023

  Oboe Not Duck

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. I hear a bird squawking outside reminding me of band when I was a kid, specifically of the oboe. The oboe can be a beautiful instrument, but in the hands of many junior high school band members it can also sound a bit like a duck in pain. Junior high…
• February 26, 2023

  The Ocean

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. Sunday has arrived and with it the beauty of winter sun which is somehow sharper than that found in the heaviness of summer. Sometimes I go to church, sometimes I listen online, sometimes I go to yoga, but for me, this day is usually one of some sort of attempt…
• January 13, 2023

  Waking Up

  I’ve started this morning ritual. The alarm goes off and the inky blackness of the room swallows me. Bed is never more appealing that in that conscious state of not quite wake, when you can appreciate a good snuggle in the covers and a pillow on your cheek, the feeling of being held for a…
• December 31, 2022

  Interlude

  The past three days, I’ve been in a cabin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Outside the windows the snow shrouds the earth, the lakes, the trees with their boughs reaching to the heavens in mostly gray sky. There is a peace and stillness to the surroundings, if you can hear it. If your mind will…
• December 6, 2022

  Sticking Points

  When I started my computer this morning it was stuck on yesterday. 12/5, 10:36 PM the time and date read. Never mind, that it is currently 12/6, 4:42 AM. My computer is very old and quirky at this point in its life. It asks me to enter complicated codes so that it can start, it…