Happy Holidays! I am thankful for much today, including that the two young women in my household are recovering fast from COVID. I have been thinking about the bonds between women and children. I hope you enjoy this sketch from my recent visit to the exhibition. For those of you in the Bay Area, see … More Dry-Point –November, 2024 Featured Poem
Dear Friends, I am posting this in the nature of a prayer. It is from my book All in Measure: A Book of Hours 2020-2022. This is a link to Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb, If Only We Dare It.” Better yet, watch her read it again for hope! Inauguration – January, 20, … More Inauguration – January, 20, 2021: October 30, 2024 Featured Poem
They come more often in autumn. No doubt they are inspired by nearby apple and pear trees heavy with fruit. However, like the fog, we never know when they will come and go. I read that some kinds of urban parrots have populations larger than the remaining, dwindling numbers of birds in their ancestral jungle … More Green Angels: September, 2024 Featured Poem
For me, and I suspect many of you, July and August have been full of images and drama about the Presidential race. I can’t make it through a whole convention anymore. I want to get to bed on time. However… I Can’t Get Back To Sleep At Night Wondering… if Ivanka and Melania ever showed … More I Can’t Get Back To Sleep Wondering… August, 2024 Featured Poem
Recovering from my first documented case of COVID-19, I have been spending even more time than usual gazing out my window at the park across the street. The vista of trees, sky, hawks, ravens, people, and dogs constantly changes. I hope you all stay as safe as you can in this new surge. City Park … More City Park Devotions: July, 2024 Featured Poem
I love palimpsests where old writings can be made to appear. Thrilled by a newly discovered painting by Rembrandt or a lost page from one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Abracadabra – “AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii.” – Scientific American, 2024 The first word to appear from the … More Abracadabra: June, 2024 Featured Poem
Earlier this Spring I was on a writing retreat with a friend in the East Bay Hills above Danville. The frogs were so loud they reminded me of peeper frogs in Massachusetts and Upstate New York. We were just back Upstate to visit friends who live in the solar eclipse path of totality. The frogs … More Pacific Chorus Frogs: April, 2024 Featured Poem
I have hope that sanity and good luck will continue to hold so we do not have to go back to preparations. … More Cans of Baked Beans: March, 2024 Featured Poem
It has been so rainy and overcast everywhere and especially close to the Pacific. One day this happened! Spring is starting in San Francisco. Blue West, over the oceanthe mackerel sky is ribbedlike a knitted shawl.Sun flames white cloudsinto glowing alabaster. Drifting east, the rows puffand spread like fingersletting the blueness of skypour through. My … More Blue: February, 2024 Featured Poem
Like many of you, I try to balance my despair about war, poverty, and loss of habitats for many creatures including humans with the beauty, compassion and kindness I find in my life and in the world. I am grateful to share my poem with you at this turn of the year. Happy New Year to … More Two Roses: December, 2023 Featured Poem
Heather Saunders Estes 