Launching
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis, 1878-1937, ...
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Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 1, 2011
- 1 min
Heart of Night
“In sleep we lie all naked and alone, in sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep;...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Dec 31, 2010
- 4 min
Happy New Year
“Why did you stop praising?” “Because I never heard anything back.” “This longing you express is the return message” —Jelal’uddin Rumi,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Dec 14, 2010
- 1 min
After Rain, Approaching Solistice
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief . . . for a time I rest in the grace of the...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Oct 3, 2010
- 4 min
Rose & the Robin
“God finds a low branch for the bird that cannot fly.” — Turkish proverb Getting Ready Water trickles into soil, the fuchsia drink, their...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Aug 24, 2010
- 5 min
About Time
“Nothing is real unless it is observed.” — John Gribben, In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality Below a redwood, its...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Aug 15, 2010
- 1 min
Holding On
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage” — Lao Tzu, Taoist Philospher River’s...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jun 20, 2010
- 1 min
Summer Solstice
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.” – William Faulkner, writer & Nobel Prize winner Seeds All morning, a pocket full of...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jun 6, 2010
- 4 min
Blood Roots
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Slicing through the black plastic pipe in thick morning fog, I am...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- May 21, 2010
- 8 min
Letter to Ngande
“When I was a little boy, I was afraid of white people. I would run away and hide. Now, in this job, I meet so many people. It’s...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Apr 22, 2010
- 5 min
Deception Valley (Happy Earth Day)
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein Photo: Terry Schulz In the twilight, they...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Mar 14, 2010
- 2 min
The Gravity of Others
“Tide: Stresses exerted in a body by the gravitational action of another . . . . Every body in the universe raises tides, to some extent,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 26, 2010
- 3 min
Listening
“Sleep, sleep, I croon . . . Sleep I sing—I who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a dog barks, a bell tinkles, or...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 14, 2010
- 1 min
Valentine’s Day
“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.” — Morrie Schwartz, 1916-1995, sociology professor Who Do You Sing For? Just before...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 13, 2010
- 1 min
Persistence
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Einstein After the Earthquake, the World Goes On The earth turns like a sac...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 1, 2010
- 3 min
Groundhog’s Day
“My poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain . . . .” — Pablo Neruda Raining. Under an eave in the...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 18, 2010
- 4 min
Everyone’s Earthquake
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” — Desmond Tutu For a moment, the broken glass creates openings in...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 2, 2010
- 3 min
Frog Song
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song” — Maya Angelou Heavy rain yesterday. This morning, a...
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