• dedicated follower of fashion

    I heard I had sold a painting yesterday and celebrated by buying two very different pair of sweat pants online, same day delivery. I opened the packages last night and tried them on and…

  • radar love

    It’s supposed to rain today and it hasn’t rained the last three times it was supposed to rain, and every time I make rainy day plans and after a while break them, and in…

  • we only get what we give

    yesterday’s plan was to early afternoon walk to the Max station and take the Max into Old Town/Chinatown and over a couple of blocks to the Lan Su Chinese Garden to buy a membership…

  • a million to one

    this is my painting, which is titanium white slathered over some previous painting and then a black-only plan to paint a duck in a wetlands – something like that. As I’ve noted recently, who…

  • seventh heaven

    “How about that,” I said to myself, walking into the basement, about any number of things, after the lazybones amble four-times-around Wilshire Park, after the rare visit to the Freddie’s gas pumps way up…

  • there were elms

    “lazybones, lazybones,” and I don’t know if it’s Bruce Sylvia or Butchie Davidson or Royal Davis yelling come out to play, it’s maybe a dream, long-ago hometown stuff, someone with a football, someone with…

  • a drop of golden sun

    I have never experienced as many chestnuts as I have this fall. The chestnut trees unobtrusive amidst Douglas Firs, majestic pines, tulip trees, magnolias, Japanese maples. Yet their evidence smatters sidewalks and reclining edges…

  • fun

    Then again, it’s like an immediate knowing that there’s no difference, no separation, between a favorite Ch’an koan – say, ‘The Buddha holds up a flower’ – and yesterday afternoon’s walk. And then there’s…

  • rocking the casbah

    (So maybe there’s a different post and me and Karen C dance in quiet another time. Just a crap of this, this, this.) It begins as a poem – Green sequoia, blue sky, slight…

  • little dignities

    From Gary Snyder’s “The Practice of the Wild,” the essay ‘Blue Mountains Constantly Walking.’ – “We learn a place and how to visualize spatial relationships, as children, on foot and with imagination….The Chinese spoke…