Sunday, September 25, 2016

SUNDAY MORNING WALK

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Off on my morning walk  on the trails through the South Carolina Botanical Gardens, accompanied by my camera.   I keep thinking ...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

DAYS OF ALL BODY AND NO MIND

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Gleaning some words from old masters I make my own poems. Ryokan Poetry is not about language. It's about something...
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Sunday, September 18, 2016

EXTRAVAGANT GESTURES: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ANNIE DILLARD

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If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.  After the one extravagant ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

THE CONVERSATIONAL NATURE OF REALITY

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It is always tempting to think of oneself as essentially alone in this world — alone in birth, alone in life, and alone in death.  Ho...
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Sunday, September 4, 2016

THOUGHTS ON SOLITUDE AND THE LAST BUTTERFLIES OF SUMMER

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I love to be alone. I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. Thoreau I need to be alone . . ....
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

WINDOWS INTO RILKE'S SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

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During a long walk this morning, I listened to an episode of On Being in which the host, Krista Tippett, interviewed Joanna Macy, w...
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Thursday, August 11, 2016

SHIFTING AESTHETICS

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I don't know why I find myself attracted to old, abandoned houses, but I do. Perhaps it's my admiration for the wabi-sa...
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