from a mountain bench

  • not knowing, most intimate

    Monday morning, my car blocked in by my landlord/housemate’s, who’s regularly out and up later than me, I left around 8:30 on a crazy long walk all the way to the downtown library, and…

  • time has come today

    One of the things I have come to love about San Luis Obispo is the way time takes its time here. I guess I notice it most often when I’m driving — I’m there…

  • a trail of bread crumbs

    A month or so before I moved from San Diego to San Luis Obispo I went to the post office and completed a ‘change of address’ form. Additionally, I verified it on-line, as directed.…

  • both sides now

    Though it’s always my intention not to, every once in a while in the blog I stray into my Zen practice, using that particular language, being all yakety yak about it. When I see…

  • it’s like this

    I haven’t yet discussed here in ‘from a mountain bench’ the special gratitude and bigger heart I feel and have for somehow creating a new space in which I can appear Mondays through Fridays…

  • Lula’s kid

    Long ago, when “couch surfing at 70” was still a thing, I offered a post about how grateful I was to live in a world that included Stevie Wonder. Yesterday I heard The Beach…

  • one diamond or another

    There is a clubhouse here at the trailer park, and joyfully two of its walls are filled with hardcover and paperback books and DVD’s – there for the taking with the pinky-swear unspoken agreement…

  • hold me closer tiny dancer

    I’ve been wondering about my mind. Not a lot, no obsession or angsty internal drama. And yet, every once in a while, maybe four or five days pass, and the thought comes, in the…

  • drivin’ around

    Yesterday I shelled out $948 for suddenly necessary repairs to my car. Happily, by Sunday night, I had settled into a que sera sera place for whatever expense was coming, and when I was…

  • moving

    I think my mind broke the other day. All by itself. I was on the Bob Jones Trail in Avila Beach on the central coast of California. I was much of the way back…