Articles written by Janet Kurtz
Best Laid Plans (Organ Recital 101)
July 5, 2022
2 Comments
A Sunday in late June, anticipated since the dark, icy days of January, finally arrived with the blue skies and green grass expected of such ...
Read More →
June Wedding – a la mejicana
June 2, 2022
No Comments
A thunderstorm roared through this morning, knocking out the electricity, uprooting a dozen trees, and producing excellent mosquito hatch conditions. This is exactly the type ...
Read More →
Spring Melts
May 12, 2022
6 Comments
Life is returning to my tundra. Like old friends, the cooing of the mourning dove greets me, mixed with the peenting of the snipe on ...
Read More →
Culture Shock: Quarantine to Disney
April 12, 2022
3 Comments
It was a trip planned for spring 2020, before the world closed down abruptly, cancelling plans from visiting elder family members to foreign forays. The ...
Read More →
March On: A People’s Journey through Time
March 2, 2022
1 Comment
The snow rose in piles over the edge of the hill before sloping down to the frozen Mississippi River. We snowshoed along a narrow path ...
Read More →
The Enchantment of ENCANTO
February 16, 2022
1 Comment
Early February morning pinks and lavenders outline the clouds in the eastern sky before exposing a tree line, then the frozen garden, and snowshoe paths ...
Read More →
Braiding Sweetgrass
January 10, 2022
No Comments
Braiding Sweetgrass is a book making the rounds these days with good reason. Author Robin Wall Kimmerer writes poetically from her spirit and theoretically, as ...
Read More →
La Acostada and La Levantada
December 8, 2021
4 Comments
Dusk fell on the houses in thebarrio situated near Saltillo’s center. Christmas lights were hung on the artificial pine in the sala and draped across ...
Read More →
Thanksgiving: Changing Perspectives
November 16, 2021
No Comments
I am a person of the north – a four season type of person. Last month, I was enjoying the extended fall of glorious color ...
Read More →