What is your relationship to independence?
Paradoxical. Historically it's been a real challenge for me to live with another person, at least in the past five or so years. It seems to be part of my nature to need solitude almost... More »
Paradoxical. Historically it's been a real challenge for me to live with another person, at least in the past five or so years. It seems to be part of my nature to need solitude almost... More »
Sometimes I bristle at the notion of goals, am resistant to the idea of having them. But really I do have them. I want to feel greater satisfaction and fulfillment in my job, maybe moving... More »
Preoccupation with what is possible in the nonexistent future.
I acknowledge and work with the numbers that show me how to eat and travel and make my necessary way in the world at large, but the numbers that I live with show me things much larger... More »
Yellow blooms here through my small evening --lks 3/3/09
Just the weather that's here now. The sky is a sheet of solid white and Sharptop is obscured completely. It's snowing lightly. A little while ago it was a cold mix of sleet and snow and... More »
In the woods, near mountains and amidst trees. Preferably with the crook of a narrow treetrunk or a big stone nearby for sitting, being still, reading, thinking, looking, listening, chewing on cheese and bread or... More »
Ookami posted part of a poem by Wallace Stevens on another blog site, and I ended up posting this, the second stanza of Sunday Morning , also by Stevens. I called it my religion and... More »
Recently my job has taken me into those places. Occasions that allow or force me to be present in a very immediate and conscious way. this is sometimes challenging but of late it has brought... More »