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 […]

October 29, 2022 A distant siren whines from the freeway. Sun shines! What a Sunday, what peace! ~Franco Fortini (tr. Geoffrey Brock), Ah the Delight…   Gosh, it’s easy to be happy when the sun is brilliant in the flawless blue sky, a cacophony of deliriously chirping birds creates surround-sound music as I sit on […]

October 26, 2022 He who binds to himself a joy 
Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise. ~William Blake, Eternity   Joy is an experience that has largely eluded me. Even while having “fun,” or sitting quietly in what was meant to be […]

October 15, 2022 And if any era thrives, It’s only because, somewhere, In a plane tree’s shade, friends sketch The dust with theorems and proofs, Or because, instinctively, A man puts his arm around The shoulder of grief and walks It (for an hour or an age) Through all its tears and telling. ~Timothy Steele, […]

October 14, 2022 I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, “You can never —” “You lie,” he cried, And ran on. ~Stephen Crane, “I saw a man pursuing the horizon”   My reaction to truly disturbing […]

October 12, 2022 All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.   ~ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (ca. 1849) I have become one of those people who doesn’t obey. And I’m not […]

October 9, 2022 Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels Look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through Looking into their eyes, I see them running too Running on (running on empty)… […]

October 8, 2022 Deep is the darkness and long is the night, solid the water and liquid the light. How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth. ~Campbell McGrath, Nights on Planet Earth   Is it too late to be grateful for things being fine, after they are not? Have we missed […]

October 2, 2022 Forever – is composed of Nows – ‘Tis not a different time – Except for Infiniteness… ~Emily Dickinson, Forever – is composed of Nows   I’ve recently come to believe that the myriad health issues my elderly mother faces have been caused, in large part, by medical and pharmaceutical interventions over her […]

September 13, 2022 In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. ~ Matthew 7:12, New Revised Standard Version, Bible I just heard from a friend about a tragic situation related to her work. The situation reminded me that information about satanic ritual […]

September 12, 2022 I have not walked on common ground, Nor drunk of earthly streams; A shining figure, mailed and crowned, Moves softly through my dreams. ~Marjorie Pickthall, Vision   I was recently asked (by the Universe) to help a person who didn’t want to be helped. After an hour or two of attempted assisting, […]

September 9, 2022 Yours is a torn and wistful beauty, born On lonely beaches when the tide is low— Fog tangled in the marsh-grass…a forlorn Blue heron wading in the afterglow… Dull silver lapping on a wet sand-bar… And lost wings circling near a ghost-white star. ~Doris Caldwell, California Coast   I’ve heard it said […]

September 5, 2022 Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast. ~William Shakespeare, Macbeth   Some things I’ve discovered lately… ~ Everything does happen for a reason. The more we dislike it […]

August 31, 2022 via email ~ TUT.com Sometimes, when you’re feeling your lowest, the real you is summoned. And better than ever before, you understand how fabulous you are, as you realize vulnerable doesn’t mean powerless, scared doesn’t mean lacking in beauty, and uncertainty doesn’t mean that you’re lost. These realizations alone will set you […]