Happy New Year
“Why did you stop praising?”
“Because I never heard anything back.”
“This longing you express is the return message”
—Jelal’
After Rain, Approaching Solistice
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief . . . for a
Remembering David
“What can you ever really know of other people’s souls—of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul
Por Todos Los Niños
The unanimous blood of those who struggle for life
Rose & the Robin
“God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.”
— Turkish proverb
Water trickles into soil, the fuchsia drink,
In the days after September 11th
Only in darkness can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If on phone, turning it sideways (landscape) best
About Time
“Nothing is real unless it is observed.” — John Gribben, In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
Below
Holding On
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu, Taoist Philospher
River’
Manhattan, Accidentally
“Wherever you go, there you are.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn, professor emeritus of medicine and Zen Buddhist
Leaving Brooklyn, not yet realizing
Summer Solstice
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
– William Faulkner, writer & Nobel Prize winner
If
Blood Roots
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
Slicing through the black plastic pipe in
What You Gotta Remember
“What you gotta remember is sometimes change is good. It might not be better, could be awful for awhile. But
Letter to Ngande
“When I was a little boy, I was afraid of white people. I would run away and hide. Now, in
Deception Valley (Happy Earth Day)
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
In the twilight, they press their cheeks
The Gravity of Others
“Tide: Stresses exerted in a body by the gravitational action of another...
Every body in the universe raises tides, to
Wix
Listening
“Sleep, sleep, I croon . . . Sleep I sing—I who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a
Valentine’s Day
“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”
— Morrie Schwartz, 1916-1995, sociology professor
Who Do You Sing For?
Just before
Persistence
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Einstein
After the Earthquake, the World Goes On
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