Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: outdoors

  • Back to the gardens

    A three-week trip to Europe last year taught me to plan for travel fatigue It was pretty simple, really. Stepping out into lush park or garden surroundings works at home to both sooth and energize. And it turned out to be a good antidote for the exhaustion that goes hand in hand with managing an…

  • Look up

    Leaving the Lethbridge, Alberta nursing home after another intriguing day with my 99-year-old mother, I did a thing I try never to do: walk while staring at my phone. When I see others do this, I tsk-tsk to myself. Dangerous at worst –people crash into things this way or are crashed into by hurtling machines,…

  • Loving the dark

    The darkest time of year requires dark poetry. So here’s Irish poet Joseph Campbell (not the well-known chronicler of mythology) with a few fine lines. The dawn whiteness.A bank of slate-grey cloud lying heavily over it.The moon, like a hunted thing, dropping into the cloud. But even with Oregon’s “slate-grey cloud”, there are counterpoints, like…