Letters to the Moon....

  Hello there, Happy Christmas to you and yours! I hope this Christmas missive finds you well.        This year of the Snake has been a year of great loss for me. My mother passed away in January. I then lost my cat Jazz in October. I feel the loss of their passing every day. My cat Blues and I are getting used to our new normal.         Still, there was some good this year. I published a new book: “The Notebook.” This is my twelfth book published. It contains a special dedication to my mother. I published it on my Dad’s 95th birthday. It’s available now, exclusively on Amazon. https://a.co/d/1kxoVNM        My friend, I wish you peace, love, and light in 2026, the year of the Horse.  Amen, Ashe, Namaste.         -Hope “Blues and Tree 2025” by Esperanza 

Dichotomy-written November 2025 Dichotomy : Noun Definition:  A difference between two completely opposite ideas or things *Cambridge Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dichotomy   We had a freak snowstorm, an early snowstorm, the first of the season. It’s not unusual to receive a frost at this time of year. But, this was a strong snowstorm for this time of year. “An inch of snow on Monday” local newscasters said. Yeah, I’ll believe it when I see it , I thought to myself. Sunday afternoon the first snowflakes began to fall. I found the event to be so completely bizarre that I took pictures of it snowing. The photo showed a haziness in the atmosphere, not snow falling from the sky. It wasn’t until there was enough snow on the grass, on the tops of cars, that the snowfall could be seen in a photograph. Monday morning I awoke to a sight that took me by complete surprise: an inch of snow on my car. They were right.  I’ll be darned. I’l...