• good morning

    And so yesterday morning I was all lost in the summer heat – dizzy dancing morning – and I left early to catch a walk before 90 degrees. On the back of the one-mile…

  • beside the fast lane

    Intimacy as a tangible thing – as a vibrant experience – is wild in my life right now. These days. I suppose it may be greater awareness, slowly encroaching through years of devoted meditation…

  • 25 and six and four

    I was going to ask if you might find a few extra minutes this morning to read a longer, story-telling post . But, nah, I’ve decided to simply leave out all the unimportant words.…

  • a soft parade, five days back

    My Friday Morning Pages were an absolute revelation for me. This clear sense of being fetched by a parade of unexpetced decisions. How have I acted? How have I followed these mini-moments of bliss?…

  • anthro-a-go-go

    The first time I found myself on the ups and downs of the Lemon Loop Trail on San Luis Mountain, switch-backing the easterly lower half, the 101 falling farther below to the right, endless…

  • walden house flashes

    Stepping through the Friday afternoon heat on the Lemon Loop Trail on San Luis Mountain, first time with that particular journey, I came up and round a corner to this: I’m happy to say…

  • don’t be shy, kid

    I called my younger sister Nancy Wednesday afternoon to wish her a happy birthday. She told me it was raining then, there in our hometown of Wareham, Massachusetts where she now lives again. Rain.…

  • quiet please playgrounds

    “You may be eloquent as a river tipping steadily over into a falls, but what would all your explanations reveal?” – David Hinton, “No-Gate Gateway” It’s interesting to try and carve out a post…

  • asking

    This was posted on Craigslist yesterday: Hello. I am looking for an empty or somewhat empty garage space where I can store 19 medium size boxes, almost entirely filled with books I’ve gathered through…

  • I had four legs

    I became a cow Sunday afternoon. I walked the walk, I talked the talk. I stepped over the patties of others, and danced my slow animal waltz amidst all those strands of golden grass.…