Author Archives: annzimmerman

Grief is a terrible and wonderful force of transformation,. It is terrible and wonderful for the one we’ve lost, and it is terrible and wonderful for the one who remains. So far, nature willing and the creek don’t rise, I’ve only had the experience of being the one who remains. Left to tell, I amContinue reading “Grief”

I’m contemplating what contribution I make to…to what? Society? Friends and family? The Earth? Myself? I imagine that I’ve always felt like my contribution was to society in the form of work, my contribution to some goal for someone else. When i worked in the public sector, I felt like the someone else was theContinue reading “Contribution, Attribution”

So, news reports are coming out this morning that National Guard response to the January 6th insurrection were delayed because of rule changes the day before. While that explains only a part of the incomprehensibly inadequate law enforcement response on that day, it opens a tiny window on the scope of the many layers ofContinue reading “What’s the point?”

I think I have been employing social distance since long before COVID. There are just some times when I need to be doing that low ground-scraping belly crawl through the proverbial jungle. There is toxic fauna along the journey, so I have to be ever aware…and when something doesn’t feel right, gotta stay vewwy vewwyContinue reading “Social distance”

Some days I really believe that I must be from some place far, far away. From some other planet, some other galaxy, a walk-in to this body here on Earth. I feel alien sometimes, like everything around me is foreign, unusual, nonsensical even. I don’t always seem to know exactly where I am in timeContinue reading “Incoming!”

So. I’m trying to remember a time when I felt more connected than I do now, and I must admit that was probably a time when I felt least aware of opposition, or least aware of reality. When I didn’t really know how the world worked, how finances worked, how politics and oppression worked, IContinue reading “What wasn’t”

So, how do I know I’m connected to things, to whatever I’m doing, to other people? Do I presume that because I’m in agreement or in synchronicity with things around me? Do I feel connected with other people and issues simply because I agree? I was on a meditation session earlier, and the group wasContinue reading “Connections”

I don’t know any more. I don’t know any more, less every day. Don’t care anymore what I know, or don’t know, if ever I did. There was a writing prompt that asked me to consider if I felt connected, connected other people, connected to the world. If not, why? And…was there a time whenContinue reading “Don’t know any more anymore”

Another rainy Sunday, here in America. My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I … of thee I … grieve. Mourn. Wail. A COVID relief bill has just passed in the House of Representatives, with not one vote of support from GOP members. At nearly the same time, people were flockingContinue reading “Another rainy day”

I’ve said many times in the past that wanting the world to change, wanting something different, isn’t good enough. We can spend all day talking about what’s wrong, what needs to happen, what’s broken, blah blah blah. That’s easy. What’s more difficult is describing what things look like when they’re fixed, when the world isContinue reading “Vision”