by Heidi Fischbach | Jun 8, 2020 | Musing out loud
(Or: Thoughts as I Walk to my Temporarily-Closed Office) Walked to my office this morning–May 29, 2020–to pick up a fan which was going unused there. Passed people wearing masks. A few not. Stopped at drugstore for a prescription. Hear man six feet in...
by Heidi Fischbach | Jul 10, 2019 | Musing out loud
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” -Ansel Adams This old guy started coming to my yoga class a few months ago. A complete beginner, I thought, based on how he’d look around to get his bearings and figure out from his...
by Heidi Fischbach | Mar 6, 2017 | Musing out loud
There are lots and lots of things I believe to be true which I later discover I was partly or utterly wrong about. You may think me odd, but the realization that I could be wrong fills me with something like (but much better than!) hope: a sense of possibility.... by Heidi Fischbach | Jan 29, 2013 | Musing out loud
What moved you? What made you laugh or cry today? What did you notice? Sometimes I ask myself those questions. They help me not take my life for granted. They help me feel more connected. And sometimes they make me bow. But yesterday morning these questions were the... by Heidi Fischbach | Feb 5, 2012 | Crushes, Essays, Musing out loud
I want to write about how I feel the tug of the other side, about how an awareness of not being, at least not in this form, sometimes makes my heart skip a beat. I wouldn’t call it fear, exactly, though maybe it’s fear’s distant cousin, or a... by Heidi Fischbach | Oct 13, 2010 | Musing out loud, Translations
This morning I watched live footage of the miners in Chile being pulled out of the ground in a capsule after 70 days of entrapment. I heard the Chilean Spanish of my childhood, and felt very close to what I watched. I was amazed by the silence and sense of calm about...