ON THE MOUNTAIN OF FORTH You could lose yourself up here or just as easily find yourself. You could see yourself traverse five counties all at once, repeat the same phrase five different ways, its meaning caught between lilt and...
~~~~~~~~~~~ THE JOURNEY One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at...
Primary Wonder Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; cap and...
How much we crave rest, yet how little we truly rest. A deep breath, a pause in the midst of thought, a quiet moment. In seeking to be “productive” we look forward to what comes after – the satisfaction and...
Happy as a Dog’s Tail Happy as something unimportant and free as a thing unimportant. As something no one prizes and which does not prize itself. As something mocked by all and which mocks at their mockery. As laughter without...
When I think how many times I could have died, and didn’t When I think how I was saved from harm When I think how beautiful it is to be able to be with people I love When I think...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.
