March 25, 2023 By one account the cards contain all knowledge of the universe collected by ancient Egyptians who agreed to transmit this knowledge covering tablets with symbols thus concealing the doctrine ~Lawrence Raab, Eight Landscapes from the Tarot Deck   Without much conscious deliberation, I’ve recently decided that if it’s not fun, I probably […]

March 21, 2023 Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide! Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves! Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me… ~Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry   The rain has gone from being an exciting novelty to a dreary inconvenience. Another atmospheric river has parked […]

March 18, 2023 A perfect note now fades along the lyre Of grace: oh, she may turn again In days of darkness to a picture flashed By stillness and fruition on her brain; Finding delight—as in a treasure cached. ~Jean Anderson, In Molten Sunlight   The squirrel’s back in the avocado tree. That’s the first […]

March 15, 2023 Everybody’s thinking about the rain… Wonder if the sun is gonna come again, things are looking bad… Tell me if you gotta build a world what that world would be… Tell me if it’s gonna be a home for all humanity… ~Cat Stevens, The Rain   News reports insist I should be […]

March 14, 2023 The good tool smooths rough lumber underneath an unforced hand, unwarps the warped board, trues the untrue edge… With good tools The edge falls plumb and all four corners square. And there is order… ~Andrew Hudgins, Tools: An Ode   We’re constantly bombarded with conflicting information and instructions. How to be, what […]

March 11, 2023 sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way… it’s been a tough fight worth fighting as we all drive along betting on another day. ~Charles Bukowski, Gamblers All   How […]

March 10, 2023 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more… But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect… ~William Shakespeare, Speech: “Once more unto the […]

March 7, 2023  Two ancient beings sit at a lunch counter in the diner at the end of time. One has a velvety brown fedora angled over his eyes à la holodeck Captain Picard. The other, emulating a woman, wears a wide-shouldered gray gabardine jacket and pencil skirt, open-toed high heels, and silk stockings with […]

March 5, 2023 The intriguing comfort of an imagined past is entered through objects the same way we continue the present but without nostalgia ~Allan Peterson, The Appeal of Antiques   It’s Sunday morning, and a sudden craving landed on me, fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus. I want to go to […]

February 25, 2023 All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space is Mightier than the room of the stars, being secret and filled with dreams:… All those treasures—… Calling me to fold back the lid of the little box and to give them sleep finally. ~ William Carlos Williams, Slow […]

February 23, 2023 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening   As I review upcoming medical appointments for feline and human family members, the phrase blazes […]

February 21, 2023 It is a perfect world, a world of consummate excellence, a world of supreme wonders, the ripest fruit in God’s garden, the master-thought of the universe. ~ Kahlil Gibran, “The Perfect World” I’ve found a book that seems to hold the secret to optimal health for everyone. It was published in 1997 and is […]

February 20, 2023 There is no wind; A breath then must stir you— If not a dancer, What are you? what were you? ~Ethel Romig Fuller, Dust Motes   I’ve become a really hard sell of late with the supposedly necessary upheaval we’re experiencing. It seems like a global con game I can no longer […]

February 12, 2023 But the faith doesn’t die That in our time these things Will amaze the literate children… And the dark places be Ablaze with love and poetry When the power of good prevails. ~Derek Mahon, Afterlives   My life overflows with shoulds, mostly related to serving my family or doing things to ensure […]

February 11, 2023 Somewhere, always, somewhere, there’s a day when healing comes… I say, healing will come. ~Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Healing Will Come: Elegy after Natural Disaster   Something’s different. What is it? Since it’s a difference I like, I want to pinpoint it and absorb it so that it becomes part of me and […]