The coolest thing about the school where I teach music-the advent ceremony where kids walk the spiral path with an apple lantern, heading from the darkness into the light…

It was a dark and stormy night….

Wearing a black lambswool sweater my mom wore before I was born. How strange that a sweater could out live a mother….

Maples: Last week all blue and gold. This morning bare branches scrape a grey sky.

What are you reading? Me – The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides & a great pre-holiday kids’ book The Quiltmakers Gift.

This is one doozy of a cold….

November storm: the rain and wind lift the last of the maple leaves from the trees, and on the hilltops—snow!

Cozy by the wood stove, with absolute compassion for anyone who has to sleep outside in the cold tonight.

Today – the first few flakes of … snow!!!

Very focused general assembly on Occupy Vancouver Live http://ping.fm/DcVe1 in the wake of the imminent dismantling of their site.