London Fog
“Memory commits you to the nuance; the fog. If you act on memory you commit yourself on the basis of echoes: unpredictable, faint, fading even as they were generated. No basis on which to inch out...
View ArticleEscape From Your Heart
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say. —Paul Coelho, The Alchemist Happy Valentine’s Day!… … or happy Lunar New Year, happy day-of-regret...
View ArticleAzulejos
Humans are divided into different clans and tribes, and belong to countries and towns. But I find myself a stranger to all communities and belong to no settlement. The universe is my country and the...
View ArticleEntanglement
“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than...
View ArticleDouzième
And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful...
View ArticleThe Pace of Nature
Adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson June, June. This month was rather harried and while always short and sweet, dragged her feet at times, and me with them. I spent...
View ArticleEdible, or Beautiful
If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what...
View ArticleMight Laurel Grow
When we have run our passion’s heat, Love hither makes his best retreat. The gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race: Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel...
View ArticleSilver as the Rainbow Scales
“I’m afraid of getting older”, that’s what I learned to say ‘Cause society has given me the words to think that way. The message spins and spirals, “Don’t get saggy, don’t get grey” But the soft and...
View ArticleUntold Mischief
“What a wonderful thing the skin is! It is the largest and most important integument of the whole human organism! What millions of pores it contains! The minutest aperture might absorb the deadliest...
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