Rereading Bashō is always a pleasure / a great reminder of what made me return to a notion of poetry pared down. The flower itself // the mo...

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.~ Meister Eckhart Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a...

Stella and the Chairless Ones. She's making notes for her own blog post .  The air was palpable, thick with anticipation and the mu...

This summer has not exactly gone as expected. I'd planned on heading west again, back to the big sky territory out in South Dakota and ...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from yo...

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. - Willi...

DaveFest 2013 What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. - Leonard Peltier Every man is in his o...

From now on I shall speak in onomatopoeia, or better, in metaonomatopoeia. -- Lidia Dimkovska If Christ had been a woman, the world would al...

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot I won't leave you drifting down, but it ...

The future belongs to crowds. --Don DeLillo Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds. --  Zelda Fitzgerald So I woke up to what...

I've got a bike  You can ride it if you like  It's got a basket  A bell that rings  And things to make it look good  I'd give it...

Drink wine, my darling, and stop chattering. - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam If you don't like my peaches Don't you shake my tree.  -...

The problem with traveling is that it's addictive. At least it is for me. My time back in Mount Carroll is nice, and it's good to se...

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves." -- Marcel Proust  "Climate is what we expect, we...