"Sunshine Through the Rain" from Dreams , by Kurosawa (1990) self-knowl·edge /ˈˌself ˈnäləj/ noun noun: self-knowledge understa...

Wednesday, from The Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, KY:   Instead of observing Lauds and Mass this morning I came down to the cafeteria to...

1. trucker cap ____preferred ball caps. Some people later referred to them as “trucker caps.” The only other kind of hat ___ ever s...

Gypsi… Dog and sometimes Yogi While I am taking on some freelance work hither and thither, the bulk of my creative energy is being us...

Hawthorns. Yep, they hurt. I travel for the same reasons I eventually come home. This is often difficult to explain to people who eithe...

Air palpable with earnest outcries read to the appropriate audience words spent on prayers to gods too busy to grant wishes (From m...

Where we love is home -- home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Ohio River at Louisville a...

I spied the end of a sex transaction while walking to the coffee shop. As I rounded the corner from my street to the main artery, I saw ...

On leave in Florida.  I am 45 years old and I'm still coming to terms with the impact my father's death had on my life. Ju...

I haven't felt like blogging lately, at least in the vein that I normally do in this space. That's not to say I haven't be...

All things are made bitter, words even / are made to taste like paper, wars gets tossed up / like soldiers used to be/ (in a child's a...

You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. - Douglas Adams Buster Keaton & Virginia Fox. The Electric House (...

  I am an exile's book. He sent me. ~Ovid Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your ow...

  Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simpli...

It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Is it possible to become ecstatic amid destruction, rejuvena...

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.~ Thomas Merton We often think of peace as th...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. – Dylan Thoma...