Stirring the Caldron of Time Posted on 11/15/2020 by Michael Gray As I opened the fridge door and wondered what would take the edge off my hunger, before I want out for my walk, I...
A Pain in the Neck Posted on 03/24/2020 by Michael Gray What causes an old memory to return, like Little Bo Peep’s sheep or like a painted horse spinning off a carousel we are surprised...
The Wind has Returned. Posted on 03/26/2019 by Michael Gray You may have been here last week, rifling the wind chimes, disturbing the sleepy quiet of branches as they open to the Spring Equinox...
A Call from Memory Posted on 02/12/2019 by Michael Gray A church bell just rung for the second time this morning, as I’m sitting over a first cup of coffee in the town of...
Waving to the Other Side Posted on 06/19/2018 by Michael Gray In times of yore (long before I was born), writers who set out to explore the mysteries of the past would invoke the Muse...
Consulting the Oracles of Time Posted on 05/29/2018 by Michael Gray In a memoir there is always a present time from which a shepherd, tending the flock of memories, sends out his rescue missions. And...
“Time—Enter Stage Right” Posted on 04/10/2018 by Michael Gray “But the plan of action is determined And the end irrevocably sealed. I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood: Life is not...
“The Gyre of Time” Posted on 04/05/2018 by Michael Gray “The culprit and the life giver is the dung and its smell of fresh air”, “Dr. Zhivago”, Boris Pasternak. Today, April 2. 2018, I...
The Ebb and Flow of Memory Posted on 01/16/2018 by Michael Gray This morning, like a migrating bird landing on a branch and immediately taking off again, a fragment of memory came back. It was from...
Sorry that my Thank You card is late Posted on 08/21/2017 by Michael Gray From my journal entry of 8/18/17: “My mother would have been 99 today”. Perhaps that thought set me to imagining myself talking with people...