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 […]

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 […]