Author: Geo Davis
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Do Differently
My existence, so far as I can tell, is largely rhizomatic. Not always. But often. Most often. My life tends toward a nonlinear network more than a bifurcating path. And yet some pivotal moments stand out — opportunities, considerations, deliberations, decisions, actions, and consequences — that fundamentally alter the network. Such moments, beginnings and endings,…
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Billboard Bias
I prologue today’s post with an unapologetic nota bene. I am biased in favor of trees and lakes and meadows. Not billboards. I favor mountains, valleys, and architecture. Not billboards. I enjoy wildlife, scenic vistas, and sunsets. Not billboards. Detecting a pattern? In short, my billboard bias ill equips me to respond enthusiastically to this…
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Past or Future?
After grumbling about a couple of recent Bloganuary prompts, I’m pleased to acknowledge a provocative question today. In contextualizing the prompt with respect to life at Rosslyn, I will weigh focus on past or future and will propose two distinct, dissimilar conclusions. Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?…
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Great, Greater, Greatest Gifts
Plunging into another Bloganuary prompt and once again obliged to qualify my response. This time the question is sufficiently open ended to invoke a great variety of answers. Hurrah! But I’m going to bend the inquiry toward Rosslyn for better relevance. With that prologue, on to great, greater, and greatest gifts. Here’s the Bloganuary prompt.…
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College, Collage, Kismet
Three mornings into Bloganuary I’m starting to reevaluate the merits of this challenge. Today’s prompt is less open-ended than ideal for inspiring creative responses. But then I remembered a post I’d begun drafting (and eventually abandoned) this past summer. That 6 month old seed — quick to germinate, quick to stall — came to mind…
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Play Daily
From our first fanciful forays — pipe dreaming and what-iffing — Rosslyn represented for Susan and for me an opportunity to play more. Or so we imagined back in 2005 and 2006 as we slowly talked each other into a monumental life change. Although fantasy and reality haven’t overlapped exactly the way we conceived, most…
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New Year Challenges
As I dip the tip of my toe into 2024 — chilly but refreshing so far — I receive an enticing invitation to join the WordPress Bloganuary challenge. Daily prompts conjoining, possibly rhyming the thematic current of multiple bloggers around the globe. And so it is that the first of my new year challenges (though…
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Old Year’s Day
Did you know that another name for New Year’s Eve Day is Old Year’s Day? Not used widely, in my experience, but logical. Retrospective. Emphasis on the year expiring rather than the year arriving. Despite a personal proclivity for forward-looking and possibility, a year-end review offers merits too. This day’s, this year’s minutes are too…
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Declutter & Consolidate
As the icehouse rehabilitation reaches its conclusion and nearly two decades of Rosslyn carpentry dwindle down to the final acts, it’s time to declutter the carriage barn that has served as a lumber and architectural salvage warehouse, workshop, and staging area. It’s time to consolidate and organize miscellaneous stacks of lumber. It’s time to make…
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Carpe Amaryllis
An unfurled flame;a wind whippedpeace pendant dancing, daring;a pearly ribbonuntwisting, untwisted;a clarion calltrump-pump-pump-iting porcelain secrets…Seize winter now.
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Driveway Tuneup
For several years, I have been planning to make improvements on Rosslyn’s driveway. Not dramatic changes, nor a huge project. With 2023 swiftly vanishing, we have initiated our long overdue driveway tuneup, completing the brunt of the work with spring 2024 “fine tuning” slotted in once the new work has weathered in during an Adirondack…
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Untethering Revisited
A little over a year ago, on October 26, 2022, I penned a post, “Leaping & Untethering“, attempting to grapple substantively with beginning to imagine our lives post Rosslyn. One of many posts over the last year and a half that approach this touchy topic, the words I wrote were cautious. I included the word…