January 20, 2023 Patience must be the charm To heal me of my woe: Patience without offence Is a painful patience. ~Thomas Wyatt, Patience, Though I Have Not   I recently become interested again in homeopathy. I researched it ten or fifteen years ago, but haven’t paid much attention since. But a friend’s talking about […]

January 17, 2023 The child who threw away leaf after leaf of the many- coated onion, to get to the sweet heart, found in the end that he had thrown away the heart itself. ~Allen Upward, The Onion   Lately, I’ve been ruminating upon the possibility that not only has religion been presented to humanity […]

January 13, 2023 Belief’s a shadow to be looked into and into until relief is gone. ~Peter Gizzi, True Discourse on Power   There are some things about my life I really don’t like. Circumstances that oblige me to have a great deal less of what I desire (and a proportionate amount of what I […]

January 11, 2023 Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream. ~ Rumi I promised myself yesterday that I would spend some time with sketchbook and drawing pencils…and I did not. There wasn’t anything I absolutely had to do which took up so much time there was none to spare for feeding my […]

January 9, 2023 I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall after the floodwaters find their way to the mouth of the Columbia River as it enters the Pacific and causes all of it to rise. …I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I […]

January 7, 2023 I sigh for the heavenly country, Where the heavenly people pass, And the sea is as quiet as a mirror Of beautiful beautiful glass. ~Stevie Smith, The Heavenly City   Much has been said about the veil that obscures universal, spiritual, and metaphysical truths from humanity. Our origins and true nature are […]

January 5, 2022 But lately I have learned what it is to be human. Learned, but not understood. It seems to involve a great deal of misery crammed into a very short lifetime. ~ R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon I’m still marveling at the difference it has made to look the dragon of […]

January 3, 2023 Everything’s happening on the cusp of tragedy, the tip of comedy, the pivot of event. You want a placid life, find another planet… Try any of the eight, try Planet X. It’s out there somewhere, black with serenity. How interesting will our times become? How much more interesting can they become? ~Mark […]

January 1, 2023 It is not far to the stars, Not far for them to lean down and whisper… Sunlight, I am mad with your light. ~Alice Corbin Henderson, Song of Sunlight   I’m finally getting around to transcribing a session I had with Dr. Peebles last January. I started transcribing it a year ago, […]

December 31, 2022 How smart is smart? thinks Heart. Is smart what’s in the brain…? What do I know about what I do not know? ~Stephen Dobyns, Why Fool Around?   I’m sitting here open-mouth grinning because it’s raining. A lot! In California! And it’s going to be raining all week! I went to a […]

December 30, 2022 … another frame of space Where we can ponder, celebrate, and reshape Not only what we are, where we are from, But what…we may become. ~Josephine Miles, Center   I really want to believe that affirmations work. That after a reasonable number of repetitions, the resistance of the subconscious mind to accepting […]

December 28, 2022 The Ocean has its silent caves, Deep, quiet, and alone; Though there be fury on the waves, Beneath them there is none. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ocean   It’s that lull time of the holidays, midweek between Christmas and New Year’s. On the grander stage of the world, events transpire. I pay little […]

December 27, 2022 I will take this road much further Though I know not where it takes me… I have all that I requested And I do not want what I haven’t got ~Sinead O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got   It’s with difficulty that I repress a generalized, pervasive impatience and […]

December 26, 2022 I don’t like this kind of waiting:… Nothing changes. This room needs flowers. ~Robert Long, Interior Decoration   I have much too narrow a definition of creativity. Intellectually, I recognize the axiom that any activity, thought process, or daydream can be creative. Still, my subliminally accepted definition insists that only artistic activities […]

December 24, 2022 Well, I lay my head on the railroad track Waiting on the double E But the train don’t run by here no more Poor, poor pitiful me… Lord, have mercy on me ~Warren Zevon, Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me   It’s Christmas Eve afternoon, and that peculiar holiday loneliness has set in. Quite […]