Author Archives: rdavies

E. M. Forster’s “Only connect” is probably the truest two-word statement ever uttered. And one can connect on many levels: between oneself and others, between one and nature, and between one and any work of art, be it film, book, … Continue reading →

“‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”–Tennyson, “Ulysses” He had come to New England in the third quarter of his life, had come to where the October highway forked and he could see now that the road he … Continue reading →

In the fall we drift along the tree-lined streets of unfamiliar places. Leaves cover everything: sleepy cars and houses sidewalks and our coats. My son drags his foot beside the curb like a street-cleaner but even he admits we could … Continue reading →

You cannot go from home to anywhere without running into closures on your route. What is open is so Third World quality that it is obvious that the open roads have been abandoned to Nature. More and more each day, … Continue reading →

Another fantastic show of songs from the ’70s meticulously covered by Jim Croce-voiced Witter. Set 1: “Time in a Bottle”-10/10 “You Don’t Mess with Jim”-10/10 “Operator”-10/10 “I Got a Name”-10/10 “Cats in the Cradle”-10/10 “Taxi” (also by Harry Chapin)–an impromptu … Continue reading →

The leaf that is contemplating its turn to fall. ******************************************************************************* And what also of plant, tree, flower consciousness? C.f. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird’s classic book The Secret Life of Plants, sections like the one on plants and music. Yes, … Continue reading →

“The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement./Nature always produces individuals.”–Lydia Maria Child, Letters from New York–second series (1845) ‘Connection’ is a desirable aspect potentially achievable with the dead and living, and via the real, fictional, and … Continue reading →

One, those about baby or toddler deaths. Two, about attacks on pets or violence against animals. I have my limits.

Life being largely about the impact of the world on an individual. Beginning with the flow of images, sounds, language, feelings, thoughts–various information via lived experience. Received, filtered, organized, processed by the individual’s senses, body, mind, feelings via imagination, intelligence, … Continue reading →

could you be a German tourist minding your own business driving on a highway who then gets shot in the head by a 16-year-old reserve native kid with nothing better to do with a firearm.