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is above all else, the gift of oneself.”–Jean Anouilh

are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”–Rudyard Kipling

is to be dissolved in something completely great.”–Willa Cather, My Antonia

is what moves us forward.”–Joseph Campbell

a glass of Jackson Triggs Chardonnay today with a nice lunch complete with sticky buns on another first day of un-skool. Eminently civilized. (above photo: On this day in his-story–another first day of un-skool, 30ish degrees C, 2012, sipping Aus shiraz on … Continue reading →

we are always in the midst of death, whether we are conscious of it or not. “He not busy being born is busy dying.”–Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding”

(my Tom Stoppard-signed copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)   Guildenstern: “Give us this day our daily mask.”–Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead “There will be time, there will be time/To prepare a face to meet the faces … Continue reading →

Omens–Sure, I believe. A robin showed up this morning in the garden on my 65th. As favorable omens go, I’ll take it. Totems–L’il Red, the backyard squirrel, dropped by for his morning shelled peanuts and a swing on the tray, … Continue reading →

(evocative 1962 Coward-McCann dust jacket by George Salter) ……………………………………………………………. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is … Continue reading →

is what Robert Frost called a “momentary stay against the confusion of the world”; a small, personal, creative act of order in a world increasingly chaotic; the making and expression–out of nothing–of something that has a potentially meaningful, satisfying form.