Terry Pace
To Those in the Limbo of Illness
By May Sarton (appears in The Silence Now 1988) You who have been here before, Waiting. Not knowing. Not living, Not dying Waiting...
top of page
Search
Terry Pace
Apr 3, 20202 min read
Kindness
By Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a...
19 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Apr 1, 20201 min read
If I Die
If I die before tomorrow It will somehow be alright For tonight I have seen the stars The womb from which we came forth I have seen them...
15 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Apr 1, 20202 min read
Otherwise
I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been...
14 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 31, 20202 min read
Hard Times (Come Again No More)
This is a version of the American standard song written by Stephen Foster in 1854 (Hard Times Come Again No More). This song has been...
20 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 31, 20203 min read
Being Mortal
The book Being Mortal (2014) by Atul Gawande a physician and surgeon at Harvard Medical School is a close up look at aging and death as...
11 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 30, 20203 min read
A Drumlin Woodchuck
By Robert Frost One thing has a shelving bank, Another a rotting plank, To give it cozier skies And make up for its lack of size. My...
4,924 views2 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 28, 20205 min read
Levelland
The song "Levelland" (1995) was written and recorded by James McMurtry (1962). It has been famously covered by Robert Earl Keen among...
22 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 23, 20202 min read
You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley (traditional)
This version is by Mississippi John Hurt (RIP 1892 – 1966). This is a traditional folk gospel hymn that has been recorded by countless...
4 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 23, 20203 min read
Thoughts on Coping with the Stress of Covid-19
By Terry M Pace This is an unprecedented time of stress. Most of us have not lived through times such as these. But I am so impressed...
17 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 23, 20203 min read
Be - Careful - With - Yourselves - Right - Now
By Heidi Kamm. Ph.D. (Psychologist) “Be careful with yourselves right now, friends. Daily stressors can amplify any pre-existing...
18 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 22, 20207 min read
Mama and the Mice
By Terry M Pace (2020) My mother, Berdell Nelson Pace grew up in an old country farm house in the midst of the rolling prairie around...
43 views2 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 20, 20202 min read
The House Dog’s Grave
I’ve changed my ways a little; I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream; and you, if you...
33 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 19, 20201 min read
Jayber Crow
Jayber Crow (2000) is a novel by Wendell Berry (1934). Berry is a classically trainer writer and American novelist. He is also a small...
7 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 19, 20205 min read
Wags
By Terry M Pace (2020) In the 1960’s we had a little dog that my brother and I named Wags. I remember a nearby neighboring farmer had a...
18 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Boxcars
Joe Ely (1947) has been singing the song Boxcars since the late 1970's right after his friend and sometimes Flatlanders band-mate, Butch...
17 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 16, 20201 min read
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at 60 and Beyond
By Larry McMurtry (1936) wrote Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999) while sitting at the Dairy Queen in his home town of Archer...
16 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 16, 20201 min read
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations is a posthumous book of collected essays written by Walter Benjamin (RIP 1892-1940). I have a 1968 version of the...
14 views2 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 15, 20209 min read
Playing Baseball in the Dark
By Terry M Pace Here is a short essay about just one of thousands of examples of people I have known and worked with as a psychologist. I...
25 views0 comments
Terry Pace
Mar 15, 20201 min read
Still Portrait at Fifteen
Forty-five years ago, no wind The breathlessness of fall Sunshine angles low across Rusty colored fields of grain Combine dust floating...
11 views0 comments
bottom of page