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 […]

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 […]