December 23, 2022 Pity the poor proud dancer who can give Death to her ease, so that the dance may live, Who makes, with pain to every body part, From perfect will power her imperfect art. ~Paul Engle, Dancer, Four Poems   Is Christmas decorating mundane and third dimensional? Or is it channeling the higher […]

December 21, 2022 For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him… For I perceived God’s light about him both wax and fire. ~Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno   Life offers many opportunities to showcase my worrier role. A weekend ago one cat needed […]

December 17, 2022 It’s Christmas once again in Santa Barbara There is not a snowflake to be found No sleigh rides, no snowmen like you see on the Christmas cards But we’ve got a lot of Christmas in our hearts ~Barry De Vorzon and Michael Towers, It’s Christmas Once Again in Santa Barbara   For […]

December 8, 2022 Therefore I gladly trust / My body to this school…~ George Herbert, Church Monuments One of my spiritual quests appears to be developing the faith that I’m always supported by Universe, and, as a corollary, that I should be trusting. Yesterday, I had three clear demonstrations of why people are not worthy […]

December 6, 2022 I can’t stop my gratitude, which includes, dear reader, you, for staying here with me, for moving your lips just so as I speak. ~Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude   Gratitude’s a tough row for me to hoe. My mental chatter is always saying, yeah, but…I am grateful for this one […]

December 3, 2022 On the day I set out, the mountain is high in front of me, the unreliable god of mist and fog… Everything becomes lucid. ~Clifton Gachagua, Mountain   This morning, I’m dealing with another episode of my cat’s wounded stomach. Painful, messy symptoms, multiple veterinary consults, medication injection blessedly provided at home by […]

November 19, 2022 No matter the pull toward brink… There is a time for everything. ~Ross Gay, Sorrow is Not My Name   It’s hard to settle to anything this morning. I’m in the trailing energy from yesterday’s bout of accomplishing stuff with our handyman friend. Half an hour of “doing“ this morning reminds me, […]

November 16, 2022 Once warring factions agreed upon the date and final form the apocalypse would take… And physicists rocketed copies of the decree to paradise in case God had anything to say, the silence that followed being taken for consent, and so citizens readied for celestial ascent. ~Mary Karr, Disappointments of the Apocalypse   […]

November 13, 2022 Praise letting go, but can we truly love What never is possessed, what never showed The least wish to be had and to be owned? This is not possessing, it possesses too… ~Robert Richman, Possession   I absolutely love how our bodies tell us what’s what in no uncertain terms. I oftentimes […]

November 10, 2022 Between the paving stones; between tea, a cup, and the sound of you pouring… They used to write epics about moments like this. ~Chris Abani, War Widow   Boy, I was sure irate yesterday. I climbed on my righteous high horse when contemplating the inequities foisted upon some humans by other humans […]

November 8, 2022 Normally, I’m not excited about voting. Okay, I’ve never in my 40-plus years of being an eligible voter been excited about voting. But today! I hummed while I tied the laces on my half-boots, only brought out when it rains. (If weather manipulation was being used to keep Californians away from the […]

November 7, 2022 In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: …At the end, God, I conclude, compensates, punishes. ~Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto   I have a small request to make of the powers that be. I doubt that the White Hats are reading […]

November 4, 2022 I love roads: The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favorite gods… The next turn may reveal Heaven… ~Edward Thomas, Roads   With his preternaturally impeccable timing, my dear cat is having serious stomach issues again right before the weekend. I’m doing things a bit differently this time. Instead of […]