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...
Remembering Betty Posted on 05/17/2018 by Michael Gray Last weekend I attended a memorial gathering for Betty Senescu. Her passing at age 92 brought together at least a hundred people. Judging from...
The Weaver is Being Woven. Posted on 05/09/2018 by Michael Gray In my own life, I have experienced recurrent changes in how my eyes viewed my world: in 1968, after a fire expelled me from...
Communications from the Field Posted on 05/01/2018 by Michael Gray “To live your life is not to cross a field.” Hamlet poem in Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak The edition of “Dr. Zhivago” that showed...
What’s Next? Posted on 04/17/2018 by Michael Gray Light is showing up among the branches visible through my sunroom windows. Not enough to predict what kind of day it will be, but...
“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...
An Unanticipated Trip. Posted on 03/22/2018 by Michael Gray A man, who for several years hasn’t driven outside the radius that holds his grocery store and a few favorite restaurants, is planning a...
Wind-Tossed Trees Posted on 03/13/2018 by Michael Gray “The moment we resolve to invite knowledge into our lives, we have already activated it. Do we wish to live a life rich...
Stay at Home Travel Plans Posted on 03/07/2018 by Michael Gray Today I must visit him. No more equivocations. No more looking in the mirror and seeing a young man looking back, as if time...