by Maida Korte | Feb 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Maida Korte “You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It’s all too much for the poor organism, isn’t it?”- Jeff Foster...
by Maida Korte | Jan 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Maida Korte “Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organized.”? Stieg Larsson Ever since reading Garrison Keillor’s essay on spring...
by Maida Korte | Dec 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ~ Edith Wharton There is a picture window at our kitchen table and this window allows me to sip coffee and gaze at our back yard with not a single muntin blocking my view. A tall, long-needled pine sits at...
by Maida Korte | Nov 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
“I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried.”~ Richelle E. Goodrich Lurking behind the walls of our ‘getting older by the minute’...
by Maida Korte | Feb 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Gwen Walker – for Chuck We had a peacock garden In rainbow bright array – But the sunflowers all have bent their heads And our finch is sparrow gray. I’ve walked the morning circle And heard the grasses squeal As Babe and Holly charge the day With swooping pristine...