TODAY, SUNDAY...

... I repeat my plea for support, for the benefit of those readers who might not have checked in for the past couple of days. Sorry to keep harping on about this, but I feel I owe it to the work I do. Please order your copy of "Mind Work." Please help me spread the word...

By way of small compensation for my importunity, may I offer a couple of "small stones":

Soap popsickle

on the bathroom shelf--

a Christmas gift

three weeks ago

from grandson Joe,

as yet unused, and likely

never to be used.

How many air miles

between Laguna Beach

and Harpenden, U.K.?

Far, far too many.

and...

Doing the chores:

cleaning out

the ashes from the grate

from last night's fire;

fetching wood

in from the woodpile

alongside the house;

laying out the logs

for this evening's blaze.

Dog watches, sleepy-eyed.

All's well at our place.

May all be well

at your place, too.