Let Them Be Safe
"The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will
Writing
Access issues of my twice-monthly letter, The Wild Now, plus a growing collection of poems, personal essays & creative nonfiction
Arriving in Liberia
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
Hummingbird Feet & A Village Girl Near Binkolo
"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
— Kevin Kelly, former editor/publisher
The Luxury of Looking
"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."
— Maya Angelou, poet &
What I Know About Ebola — Part I
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
— Desmond Tutu, human rights
The Sound of Light
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
— Pablo Casals, Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist,
New Year's Day, Alone on Big Lagoon
“everything here
seems to need us”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Paddling in fog this morning, I think, is this what Pablo
Splintered Hearts: The Women of Rural Ecuador—Visit Field Notes
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.” — Sydney Smith, writer
One Birthday, Remembering Another
“I just can’t comprehend
Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world,
Or the
New Year’s Eve: What I Found in My Notebook
“If we’re not mindful, it’s not tea that we’re drinking but our own illusions and afflictions.” — Thich
Waiting for the New Era
“The end is where we start from.” — T. S. Eliot
If on phone, turning it sideways (landscape) best displays poetic
Another Thanksgiving Day…Thank You
“I thank you God for this most
amazing day, for the leaping greenly
spirits of trees, and for the blue
Every Child a Caroline & Other Possibilities
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
— Carl Sandburg, poet
When I first meet Caroline
After Walking Clam Beach
“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or
Another Memorial Day Weekend
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color."
The Road to Carate
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British Philosopher
It is two
Back Around
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.” — Milan Kundera
If on phone, turning it sideways (landscape) best displays poetic line breaks.
A Story About Poems
“If I speak for the dead . . . I must write the same poem over and over....” — Illya Kaminsky, poet
Once there