Gary Glickman

Tilting toward the Equinox, we here in Hobbiton have been thirsting through droughtwe who are stewarding the Earth as a living being are wilting along with our trees and hedges and garden leaves and grass. All of us brittle, dessicated, taking only shallow breaths until the rain comes: maybe tonight we say, day after day. We here in Hobbiton must mostly rely on what water comes from the sky onto our roofs and then into our cisterns. [ 711 more words ] https://aviewfromhobbiton.wordpress.com//achenbachs-straw/

Full Moon, August 2, 2020, Hobbiton Here in Hobbiton it is just as Tolkien described. We are pretty much, as a community, absorbed by the small issues of our beer and tobaccoor whatever modern version you’d like to name. Here on our particular island, on our particular lovely hill at the end of a long narrow bumpy country road, there’s a lot of cannabis and other plant-based altered consciousness, but, according to the edges of the spectrum, also lots of private deep drinking, and the occasional house blows up from a disorganized meth-maker. [ 677 more words ] https://aviewfromhobbiton.wordpress.com/20//03/covid-moon/

Candide's Little Plot: Daring to Feel Okay Even Despite Everything https://aviewfromhobbiton.wordpress.com//candides-little-/

June 21, 2020, Father’s Day A year ago this week, my father died. The last time I saw himat my mother’s funeral, six month’s beforehis poor health shocked me. He was 88, a long-time tennis player, admired judge, handsome into his eighties. But at the funeral of his first wife he was reduced to walking hunched over, spine horizontal to the floor, clutching an aluminum walker, shadowed by his third wife in case he toppled over. [ 852 more words ] https://aviewfromhobbiton.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/yarzeit/

April 2, 2020 Colette, limping with arthritis in her sixties and married to a Jew when the Germans marched into Paris in 1940, sold articles about fruits and flowers and childhood reminiscencesto a Gestapo-supporting magazine. Some people criticized her for supporting the Gestapo publication. It is also true she had to bribe the Gestapo to get her husband back, after he was deported to the South, en route to Auschwitz. [ 893 more words ] https://aviewfromhobbiton.wordpress.com//flowers-and-fruit/