yesterday i was grateful for Costco and a new clothing rack installed in my studio…

today i am looking forward to the usual house chores, organizing my studio and clothing and dinner with friends…

yesterday i was grateful for my brother on his birthday…

today i am looking forward to a trip to Costco and organizing my studio and clothing…

What the modern forms of reason and disciplined order had put asunder could thus be seen as threefold: the reasoning mind was divided from his own desiring nature, from the community, which thus threatened to disintegrate, and from the great current of life in nature. (Charles Taylor, A Secular Age)

power differential is temptation to sin…

yesterday i was grateful for the end of an exhausting day…

today i am looking forward to a meeting of the Metropolitan Cemetery Association…

yesterday i was grateful for the lentil, vegetable, turkey soup i had for dinner…

today i am looking forward to my colleagues at the cemetery…

yesterday i was grateful for a safe trip home and to be home…

today i am looking forward to yoga with Maryanne and resuming my Beacon routines…

yesterday i was grateful for a great mac and cheese soup recipe…

today i am looking forward to going home to Beacon…

yesterday i was grateful for the last two episodes of Friends and Neighbors, watched with Holly…

today i am looking forward to getting ready to go home and making a mac and cheese for dinner tonight, which Holly thinks her mother will enjoy…

yesterday i was grateful for my mother in law Marilyn feeling better…

today i am looking forward to hunkering down with Holly during the storm…

yesterday i was grateful for Dick’s Fish and mussels with linguine for Marilyn…

today i am looking forward to dinner at Ely’s with Holly…

yesterday i was grateful for an early morning walk from Southeast Lighthouse into town and back, a walk on Mansion Beach with Holly and the dogs and leftover chicken soup that Steve and Diane made before they left…

today i am looking forward to going with Marilyn to her discussion group…

yesterday i was grateful for cocktail hour at the Hartnet’s…

today i am looking forward to a low people day…

yesterday i was grateful for a long walk on the beach at sunrise…

today i am sad to see our friends Steve and Dianne go…

this evening i am looking forward to virtual photography salon…

yesterday i was grateful for a walk in Rodman’s Hollow with Holly, Steve and Dianne, and the Chowda Fest at the BI Maritime Institute

today i am looking forward to a beautiful day on BI…

yesterday i was grateful for Steve and Dianne’s cooking and company…

today i am looking forward to the chowder fest at the Block Island Maritime Institute…

yesterday i was grateful for the warmth of friends and a fire in the fireplace…

today i am looking forward to coffee at Persephone’s, and showing the island to S&D…

yesterday i was grateful for the arrival of S&D…

today i am looking forward to being warm and dry on a stormy day…

yesterday i was grateful for a quiet night in the cottage…

today i am looking forward to the arrival of S&D…

yesterday i was grateful for Odd Fellows Cafe and a new pair of walking shoes…

today i am looking forward to a nice morning walk amidst the beauty of Block Island and time with my mother in law…

yesterday i was grateful for the resumption of routine and the beauty of Block Island…

today i am looking forward to more island beauty, and walks with dogs and wife…

we arrived on Block Island yesterday…

cars being loaded onto a ferry

some shots from early this morning…

landscape with utility pole on the left and harbor and ferry boat in the distance

wide angle view of National Hotel on Block Island in early morning sun

bluebird painting in shop window

interior of Odd Fellows Cafe on Block Island in early morning sun

yesterday i was grateful for a safe arrival on beautiful Block Island and dinner with Holly and my mother in law…

today i am looking forward to a lazy day with dogs, wife and mother in law…

yesterday i was grateful for Amy at Sonny Nail Salon and an acceptable resolution to an issue at the cemetery…

today i am looking forward to a morning walk, coffee and preparing for Block Island…

I get complimented on these glasses at least once a day, usually by total strangers. Sometimes multiple times a day. I feel like the world could end if I ever loose or break them…;-)

older man in green crystal framed glasses head shot