A Language Larger Than Words
“And this, our life . . . finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every
Writing
Access issues of my twice-monthly letter, The Wild Now, plus a growing collection of poems, personal essays & creative nonfiction
After the Good News, The Raven
“At the end of the glacier
two ravens . . .
At the end of the ice age
show me the way . . .
Flying
Every New Day, The Best Day
“On my way home I remember only good days.
On my way home I remember all the best days.
I’
Launching
Celebrating the publication of my first book, a poetry collection, recognized with a national poetry book prize
Better the Cup Breaks Before You
Wear it, use it, savor it, let it go
Happy Earth Hour 2011
“Earth Hour 2010 became the biggest Earth Hour ever ... People across the world from all walks of life turned off
Going Deeper
“The first time I walked into a mine, I wanted to turn around and get out...I just kept going
Heart of Night
“In sleep we lie all naked and alone, in sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness,
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
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