by Julie Mathison | Aug 2, 2020 | Lifestyle, Music, Spirituality, Uncategorized
On the most important day of my life, the Sugar Beets were there. We had made all the arrangements. Round tables, each laid with table cloths and a small vase of flowers, were scattered amongst the trees of our centuries-old oak grove. Plates in...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 27, 2020 | Home, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality
Every spring, for the last fifteen years, we have planted a garden. In recent years, much of this has fallen to our friends, Greg and Amber, who share in the spoils of chard, kale, carrots, beets, garlic, lettuce and berries of all kinds. But we all do our...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 18, 2020 | Ideas, Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Spirituality
What is it to hold to things you cannot see, touch, taste or feel? To be governed by principles no legislation can decree but the whisperings of your own heart, your instincts, your faith — ineffable as it is? One cannot say anything truly new about...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 11, 2020 | Ideas, Society, Spirituality
I was born in 1969. On July 20th, when I am eight days old, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to set foot on the moon. He manually pilots the Eagle past strewn boulders, amid the sounding of alarms, to land in the Sea of Tranquility with 30...
by Julie Mathison | Jun 17, 2020 | Lifestyle, Travel
I have always found magic in declining spaces. Abandoned lots in the middle of a city, wedged between buildings and overrun with weeds. Alleyways of every description. The Main Street of a small town that has languished since the freeway was built,...
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