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Change Happens. It Just Does

November 11, 2023 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A flowering trees buds out in February 2013 in California. Photo by BF Newhall

Impermanence: Everything Changes — And So Can I

February 22, 2013 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

A limb splits off from a live oak tree in San Francisco Bay Area. Photo by BF Newhall

Impermanence. It’s a helpful, if not always comfortable, idea: Everything changes. It just does. My Aunt Grace died last month. My son Peter will be married in May. And 56 wind turbines are now up and running on the pristine rural countryside near my father’s birthplace. Read more.

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Photo Op: Pentwater, Michigan — A Small Town on a Big Lake

North Hancock Street, Pentwater, Michigan, with shops, flags and trees. Photo by BF Newhall

When I was a kid, Pentwater was not the place to be. The place to be was on the beach or in the woods with the wild critters. But now that I am thoroughly grown up, I’m preferring the charms of Pentwater village to the toads and grasshoppers of my 9-year-old self. Read more.

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