December 7, 2023 Life is short and the world is at least half terrible… Any decent realtor… chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. ~Maggie Smith, Good Bones   I don’t know if it’s because of the so-called inverted matrix we dwell in on Planet […]

December 2, 2023 We are dreaming of transformations, of walking into the world somebody else. ~Linda Pastan, Beauty Shop   It’s already December 2 and I have yet to put away the Fall decorations. Yesterday I decided to forgo Christmas decorating altogether as causing unnecessary pain, despite discovering last year how much I enjoy it. […]

December 1, 2023 Dear God, I feel my mind slipping… How good to believe her bones will rise like so—do their dance. ~Rennie McQuilkin, Ascension   Funny how my priorities have shifted in the last couple of years. I used to be in half-baked prepper mode, ensuring we were overstocked on food and necessities. Now […]

November 27, 2023 We knew a timeless place beside three trees… I shall put off my grief, my sick despair, Since only joy is silhouetted there. ~Louise Townsend Nicholl, Timelessness   Creativity can seem mysterious, the purview of artists and eccentrics, or geniuses like Einstein and da Vinci. It certainly isn’t me on a crisp […]

November 25, 2023 Thus her beautiful face, the crippled girl’s… The richness of that face!—most generous In what it keeps, giving in its having. …Her beauty saying… That what it is is kept as it is given. ~David Ferry, The Crippled Girl, The Rose   I’ve usually found it easy, even automatic, to be kind […]

November 18, 2023 Dance girl, you carry our joy. Just don’t look down. ~Joy Harjo, Everybody Has a Heartache: A Blues   There’s a luminous quality to joy, when one has been robbed of it for an age and an age. Perhaps particularly so when one has acted as the thief of joy as well […]

October 28, 2023 Something there is that loves / an arrow… ~ Philip Jenks, November Way back at the beginning of my “hip pain” journey, a healer alerted me to the spiritual wisdom that one must address underlying emotional / spiritual / karmic causes of dis-ease before one can cure physical disorders attributed to said […]

October 26, 2023 …maybe I dreamt it Or made it up, or have suddenly lost Track of its train in the hocus pocus Of the dissolving days… ~Charles Bernstein, In a Restless World Like This Is   Oh, we humans are so amusing. On the one hand, we’re very glad that the allopathic medical system […]

October 21, 2023 it’s a mysterious feast you attend, but it offers an affable scent of the cauldron, the light of abundance poured over every table… ~Amy Beeder, Because our waiters are hopeless romantics   I made the mistake of getting a little bit hopeful, excited even, about the possibility of solving the long-term “hip pain […]

October 20, 2023 You are talking about happiness, mine. As if it were real. ~Marjorie Maddox, Chimera   Something different happened yesterday. When my new Rolfing practitioner put the words “hip replacement” and “you should consider one” in the same sentence, my knee-jerk rejection didn’t show itself. Instead, I listened with curiosity and open-mindedness, rather […]

October 17, 2023 Third of Five [Hugh]: You are not Borg. Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That’s right. And I hope to stay that way. Third of Five: You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: That’s gratitude for you. ~Star Trek The Next Generation, “I Borg” (1992)   I’ve had […]

October 14, 2023   —Are you mad? Please don’t write about these things. ~Adonis, Desert (translated by Khaled Mattawa)   It’s a cloudless morning, but it seems to be getting dimmer. Luckily, I had just gotten an email notification from Suzi’s Buy Me a Coffee site about watching today’s eclipse. Oh, that’s right. Some big deal […]

October 12, 2023 Where true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Desire   Inevitably, when the magic of the Fall season rolls around, my longing for a […]