Yesterday was a very interesting day. I was, I am, most fortunate to be alive on the planet.

The fuchsias sitting in their pots on the driveway are swaying ever so slightly in a breeze I can not feel, but see. There are four, and I have watered them earlier this morning,…

I am presently entirely immersed in these three books – ‘The Way of Ch’an’ by David Hinton; ‘The Practice of the Wild’ by Gary Snyder; ‘Tripmaster Monkey’ by Maxine Hong Kingston. I’m enchanted and…

I may have had brown eyes when I was young, when I was a kid. It said so on my license – Brn, Brn. But, they’ve become green over the years. So green that…

There were four cats along the way on my walk Sunday morning. I believe they served as lookouts; as gatekeepers; as ambassadors of the quiet – the walk slow and gentle -and it would…

This house is up the next block from where I live on NE 16th. I snapped this yesterday just before 6p, on a walk in the heat, drowsy, silly, strolling along. I often notice…

…Turns out with virtually no spending the trickle away of savings is just a trickle. Away. My heart valve may give out completely long before the money. And ditto, in terms of company, for…

…There’s two weeks before the landlords return, Kate a bit more than that, no current appointments, Tuesday nights and those Wednesday/Saturday teacher flips, like totally, all these gosh darn books, the state has big,…

A wonder, hmmm, if there’s been just enough outreach (finding a job) that it’s left to patiently wait, now just wait, a patient lingering on a cusp – one cusp of a zillion between…

Seemingly unemployable and everything, I am going to apply for a fellowship. $5000. To subsidize a two-week journey hither and yon, multiple landing spots, during which I will research and begin the devotion to…