July 2, 2022 The Thunder Beings are a race of powerful storm spirits from Algonquian mythology that live in the sky and cause thunder and lightning…Thunder Beings are dangerous spirits who sometimes kill people with their powers, but they are also sworn enemies of the horned serpents and sometimes rescue people from those monsters. ~ […]
A Steadfast Peace
June 26, 2022 How do other people bear what you are still afraid of? The answer is that when big things happen you do go through the looking glass, but it is still you who goes through, the inner text is all still right to left, so you just keep reading. ~Jennifer Michael Hecht, Steady, […]
Dreaming Selfish Dreams
June 24, 2022 Oh, I could hide ‘neath the wings Of the bluebird as she sings The six o’clock alarm would never ring… Oh, what can it mean To a daydream believer… ~John C. Stewart, Daydream Believer I half-jokingly texted a friend, “I’m scraping up gratitude for the even keel of my life.” This […]
Truth is Truth is Truth
June 18, 2022 Truth is truth / Till the end of reckoning. ~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure There doesn’t seem to be anything new I can say about the topics that have concerned me over the last couple of years. Although I’m assured by various podcasters and writers that “things are happening“ and great […]
The Armageddon Closet, Reimagined
June 11, 2022 I’m finding my focus moving evermore inward. Still keeping track of happenings, through what I consider reliable sources, but in a mostly passive way. Emulating the idealized 1950s middle-class American housewife, I’m happiest while making home and family comfortable, secure, and last but not least, prettied up. Purchasing a few trinkets. Doing […]
Seeking Little Mary Sunshine
June 6, 2022 Is that all there is, is that all there is If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing Let’s break out the booze and have a ball If that’s all there is ~Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Is That All There Is? I can’t get that Peggy Lee […]
Words of our Hearts
June 4, 2022 think of writing as a process, a never-ending, infernal process, and now the boats have become jammed together, bow against stern, stern locked to bow, and not a thing is moving, only our diligent pens. ~Billy Collins, Writing in the Afterlife A friend commented that my article the other day sounded […]
In Future Dreams
June 2, 2022 Of the Great World he knew not much, But his Muse let little in language escape her. Friends sigh and say of him, poor wretch, He was a good writer, on paper. ~Howard Nemerov, Epitaph I just did something monumental, yet it hasn’t made much of a blip on my personal […]
Tiger in the Trees
May 30, 2022 Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? ~William Blake, The Tyger The wind came up again last night. Sudden, like an instant storm. It slapped against the house, slammed doors as it roared between windows cranked wide to […]
Enter the Holodeck
May 28, 2022 In some ways, discovering that our physical universe is formed in a completely different way to what we thought is a bit like someone in a Star Trek Holodeck program suddenly seeing a bit of the actual spaceship and questioning their own sense of ‘what is real?’ ~ Richard Gentle I’ve been […]
Found, Lost, Found
May 26, 2022 Some of us are like trees that grow with a spiral grain as if prepared for the path of the spirit’s journey to the world of all souls. It is not an easy path. ~Linda Hogan, Lost in the Milky Way I wonder if I’m losing my empathy? I just can’t […]
Heaven in the Skies
May 22, 2022 Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings… Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark nor ever eagle flew— And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, […]
On the Other Side of the Eclipse
May 16, 2022 …he says let’s walk up to the field and catch the sunset, and off we go, a couple of aging fools. I hope, he says, on the other side there’s a lot less work, but just in case I’m bringing tools. ~Maxine Kumin, Chores It’s the morning after the full moon […]
The Reins of My Soul
May 13, 2022 Patience must be the charm To heal me of my woe: …a painful patience. ~Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patience, Though I Have Not Another longtime local retailer, Beads and Blue Lotus, has closed its doors in Santa Barbara. It almost made it to 40 years, which is a stellar accomplishment in the […]
Someone Else’s Hand
May 11, 2022 …There are worse things than running to catch the train, twisting your ankle… Running to get to or away from? the stranger who helps you up wants to know… Just want the pain to go away, you say, surprised to find yourself reaching for someone else’s hand. ~Timothy Liu, All Trains Are […]
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