Continue Reading A Curtain of Clouds Walk with me. Make sure you bring the rubber boots which I, as per usual, forgot on Monday. It was…
Continue Reading Henk Pander – The Ordeal Ordeal: any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial. Synonyms: agony, anguish, calamity, distress, nightmare, torment, torture, trial, tribulation – Thesaurus.com Here’s…
Continue Reading The Snails The Snails by Samatar Elmi I mean, the analogy writes itselflike the onion in a grand conceitthough we really are like two slugsin a derelict…
Continue Reading Uneven Justice I was born in the year of the cop-out, double speak, dust bunny, group think, fairness doctrine, junk food, mass-market, neoconservative, split…
Continue Reading Of Courage, Consciousness and Coconuts. Phew, just in time. Needed a birthday present for a young woman dear to me, an avid and thoughtful reader. Having waded…
Continue Reading Seclused in Light by Thomas Lux It’s dusk. My sons are tall. And one of them became a father this week, starting a new cycle of…
Continue Reading A Path towards Transformation On a dry day last week I walked among the cornfields, aware of climate change with the water levels in the ponds…
Continue Reading A Plea against Narrowing “And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that did not…
Continue Reading A Dream within a Dream. Last blog of 2022. Comprehensive retrospective? Nope. Prognoses for 2023? Nah. Capturing once more the beauty that surrounds us and respond with…
Continue Reading Tiere und Türme In tune with my surrealist forbears, I worked on a series of photomontages this fall: Turmwächter – Guardians of the Towers. The…
