(Almost) daily reflections from novelist and essayist J.F. Riordan, author of the North of the Tension Line series, and of two books of essays on life, "Reflections on a Life in Exile" and "But Still They Sing". Frequent gratuitous dog photos.
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Many voices
The sun is just barely appearing over the horizon, and a crane is circling overhead, calling loudly. Is it a wakeup call to his comrads? Or a final farewell before he begins his journey south? He has disappeared from my view, but far down t...
Notes for my ongoing procrastination
We have a new pair of owls in our woods, and I am still learning to discern their calls. They are barred owls, and we heard them for the first time over the weekend. We thought for a moment they were coyotes, and turned off our music to lis...
Requiem for a lost time
The Brewers are in the playoffs, and this year they look serious. But every game I’ve gone to in the past five years or so, they’ve lost, so I have been assiduously avoiding watching the games. I know it’s silly, but baseball has a way of d...
Rest
Silently, day and night, invisibly even as we watch, the leaves are transforming from lush green to the resonating golden warmth of fall. This morning the tops of the maples are saturated reds, yellows, and oranges, and here and there in th...
In the thick of the light
After two days of heavy rain, the sunlight this morning is golden. It reverberates through the changing leaves into something saturated and almost palpable. Eli, who finds rainy days particularly challenging, and who therefore makes them ch...
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