Loving-Kindness

My friend Lindsay and I found ourselves bustling around our small suburb, attempting to push our way into a brunch spot on a late Sunday morning. We lost out to the church crowds that inevitably tumble into these joints. So, we found ourselves over chips and salsa at Verde, ordering heavier lunch foods and talking…

Blood and Body

I am currently on the drive back home from a weekend spent celebrating the life of one Linda Dunn. A wife, mom, librarian, and lover of New Mexico and its culture. Her runway with us was short when she was diagnosed with dementia. As a friend put it to me yesterday, “Dementia takes them before they’re…

Glitter

For Gus, Rex, and Linda I’ve come to learn – through experience and others – that death marks our time here in this time and place. Death is like a turning over to a scene where we are no longer held by the concept of time. Our loved one is now both there andeverywhere. Like…