Continue Reading Of Bloodlust and Shorebirds There we were sitting outside on the deck having dinner. Halfway through, one of us who shall remain nameless, departed for the…
Continue Reading Of cows and reharmonization Today I am indulging myself and those of you who care deeply about music with a string of videos all either created…
Continue Reading Of anchors and dragonflies “We are wired to flit.” This sentence anchored my attention for the microsecond that goes for my attention span these days. The…
Continue Reading Of sheep and peas In truth, today is all about peas, their luminescence, their daintiness, their curlycues and their service to science. The sheep play a…
Continue Reading All is transformed For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen by Jane Hirshfield Back then, what did I know?The names…
Continue Reading Nothing is Clear Leave it to me to choose a title that in itself is easily disproven: it IS clear, that speaking in absolutes soon…
Continue Reading Nothing is Lost I learned a new word yesterday, psychogeography, in the context of thinking and reading about travel writing. The travel ain’t happening, but…
Continue Reading Nothing is Easy I get mail that tells me I make too much use of the bully pulpit and should seduce the reader on an…
Continue Reading Nothing is fixed Feeling demoralized? Acknowledge it. Sad? Allow it. Worried? Accept it. These emotional reactions have a function, just as positive thinking does. They…
Continue Reading The Duty to Protest Here the poem is read. Want to guess when Protest was published? In 1914, in a book by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, titled…
