Monthly Archives: May 2013

“Only connect!” –epigraph, A Passage to India

“You can never step in the same river twice.”

“Exuberance is beauty.”

“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” My Antonia

Lying in bed (just like Brian Wilson did) early the other morning and realizing something basic to writing, my own writing, and life experience. Life itself is fundamentally made up of sound, image, and movement. Sound we are always hearing–from … Continue reading →

“Cheer up–it can only get worse.”

And ‘The End’ will be the last thing you imagine. For me, a long golden hour and tranquil sea flowing forever out of my evening spring dream. My ascending a full circle much as Dickinson dreamt because she could not … Continue reading →

After dinner and croquet we sat happy, content with ourselves family and world in the grey backyard calm of twilight. The whoosh and cries came too sudden for knowing– the stillness broken by necessity and nature’s fact. The cedar shattered … Continue reading →

Who gaze at the sky It is you who are wise Only you who are wise. –John Stewart, “Those Who Are Wise; Sunny Side by The Kingston Trio