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 […]

February 7, 2023 One thing I have learned the long years through, To know the false words from the true. ~Eva Gore-Booth, The Vagrant’s Romance   I used to greet timesaving things like the microwave oven and Lean Cuisine frozen dinners with ignorant joy. Oh, goody! When I get home from work, dinner can be […]

February 4, 2023 Now, in a breath, we’ll burst those gates of gold, And ransack heaven before our moment fails. Now, in a breath, before we, too, grow old, We’ll mount and sing and spread immortal sails. ~Alfred Noyes, Immortal Sails   I’m beginning to question the necessity of entropy. Must everything degrade? Bodies, buildings, […]