Patricia Wild’s Blog

February 26, 2011: Let Go, Let Lucy (and Alice and Julia and. . . )
Like many  greater-Bostonians, I received countless e-mails these past few days encouraging me to show up at the State House ...
February 24, 2011: Let Go, Let Sheer Fantasy
Today's musing/sheer fantasy is courtesy of two, seemingly random but inexorably-linked-in-mysterious-ways-that-we'll- never-understand phenomena: 1. Oil is now  $100 a barrel ...
February 23, 2011: Let Go, Let Justice
Last night at our Prison Fellowship meeting, we talked a little about how those working within the prison system, the ...
February 22, 2011: Let Go, Let Synergy
Tonight was another Prison Fellowship meeting. And, as always happens on the fourth Tuesday of the month, in the middle ...
Let Go, Let—damn!
Today I had to say goodbye to my daughter Allison, visiting for a few, precious days from California. So you ...
February 20, 2011: Let Go, Let Time
Friday, a woman I know left a message on my answering machine: "Guess I haven't been in touch for a ...
February 19, 2011: Let Go, Let Flow
Today I spent a couple of hours tabling at Somerville's winter farmers' market on behalf of Somerville Climate Change. ("That's ...
February 18, 2011: Let Go, Let God?
Okay. True confession: I've been reading The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Pulitzer ...
February 17, 2011: Let Go, Let Nod
Today, after an embarrassingly easy Mohs procedure, I took a walk to Porter Square to get surgical dressing stuff for ...
Let Go, Eat Chocolate
My most honest thinking often happens when I vacuum. So today, after a complicated and expensive and seemingly 4-eva session ...
February 15, 2011: Let Go, Let Democracy
Last night I watched "Return to Kandahar" and  today read of projected deep cuts to anti-poverty agencies here in good ol' ...
February 14, 2011: Let Go, Let Thaw
Today, a sunny and outlandishly warm (in the 40s; oh, my!) Valentine's Day, I opened the door to my deck ...
February 13, 2011: Let go, Let Faith
Mother Teresa was in conversation with a reporter one time, and he said, “You must get very discouraged,” because she’s ...
February 12, 2011: Let Go, let Rumi
[from A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings—here's an excerpt from the February 12th poem] Humankind is being led along an ...
February 11, 2011: Let Go, Let the Years
If you might be tempted to ask, "Did you like the Beatles?" of someone you'd just met, as one character ...
february 10, 2011: Let Go, Let Gravity
Yesterday I discovered that a different route to where I needed to go—Davis Square and Porter Square—was 98% smooth sailing; ...
February 9, 2011: Let Go, Let Truck
Readers to this blog know that this month is all about spiritual exercises: letting go, letting  . . . Something ...
February 8, 2011: Let Go, “Call 311”
Today walking up sleety, icy College Avenue, I saw an older woman coming in the opposite direction slip and fall ...
February 7, 2011: Let Go, Let Nudge
Yesterday, during silent worship, I let go of my plan to revise a two-act Armenian-themed play I'd written a few ...
February 6, 2011: Let Go, Let NStar
We had a power loss again last night. And although I'd been sleepy before the lights went out, suddenly I ...
February 5, 2011: Let Go, Let Light
Sometimes when it's overcast because another storm's coming, and I'm a little worn out from dealing with snowbanks and ice—today, ...
February 3, 2011: Let go, try sand, shoveling.
Today, walking down a slushy, snowy, side street, I walked past a guy in his car trying to get out ...
February 2, 2011: It’s official: the Prison Fellowship* fundraiser’s been postponed. (Yuck)
This letting go is so much more complicated: There's a man sitting in prison, waiting for our Prison Fellowship committee ...
February 1, 2011: Surrender!
Like many Americans of a certain age, my first experience with today's title was when the Wicked Witch sky-scrawled "Surrender ...