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Dec 89 min read
Alphabet City - When there is no more time.
“We lock ourselves in echo chambers where we only hear ourselves.” – Robert Pirsig In those early days, the only thing keeping me alive...
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Oct 136 min read
Faites comme chez vous, chérie.
“It is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.”― Beryl Markham, West with the Night I am...
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Oct 24 min read
Big Dipper
“It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.” - Anatole France It’s early evening and already dark as I pull into my...
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Sep 45 min read
Fallow
“There can never be a single story. There are only ways of seeing.” - Arundhati Roy To insure their crops against loss from natural...
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Jan 123 min read
Snow Walk
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have...
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Aug 14, 20236 min read
The Sermon of the Inanimate
“By a grace of sudden intuition, the normally unknowable makes itself known, and the knowledge is self-validating beyond the possibility...
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Jun 21, 20237 min read
Susan
“Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 “Would...
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May 22, 20235 min read
Seeds
The picture below shows an onion seed, an asparagus seed, and a penny. You can see that the seeds are quite small. Small is where I began...
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Apr 16, 202312 min read
An Occurrence at La Fontaine
“La vie est un sommeil, l'amour en est le rêve.” Daniel sat at one of the small bright blue tables that adorned the sunny terrace of La...
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Jan 24, 20239 min read
Talking to the Dead
“Thirty-six hours after she died, they brought her into the room. Leaning over the body, Anne felt the area right over the heart and it...
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Dec 11, 20224 min read
Presenting, Ronnie
I want to be invisible. Ronnie wants to be invisible. We found a way. Ronnie and I are scheduled to give a talk in front of a large...
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Oct 30, 202210 min read
Generously Lost
“To find your way, you must become lost. Generously so.” - Bayo Akomolafe Dennis Chan is angry with me. Rightfully so. He won’t openly...
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Oct 2, 20228 min read
Shadows
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness visible.” – Carl Jung My friend Tai Zhou is in...
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Aug 14, 20228 min read
Sweating Buddha
“In charity there can be no excess and neither man nor angels can come to any danger by it.” – Sir Francis Bacon Marcus has a profound...
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Jul 16, 20226 min read
Providentia
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer I am by myself but...
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Jun 21, 20227 min read
Noticing Italy
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller I am the Mayor of Les Combes! Well, I was for a...
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May 20, 20228 min read
Zerrissenheit
I don’t want your help. Leave me alone. I’m fine. “The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response.” Make a picture in...
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May 5, 20223 min read
Blessings Upon Blessings
On Tuesday, May 3rd, I returned from California after attending the wedding of Ashley and Michael. Ashley is the daughter of my dear...
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Apr 4, 20227 min read
A Common Disaster
Everything in the world is shaking. I keep a steady hand on my trowel. This week, I am planting ramps in the woods. This same week,...
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Mar 7, 20229 min read
Cold Friction
“Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort. First, the cold friction of expiring sense...
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