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Laura
I don't think I've been there yet. It's not utterly remote but has a sort of collective sense of the importance of living consciously and kindly and so it isn't a city. It's not too cold nor... More »
Laura
The big room that opens out onto my weathered gray deck. From this room I can see the pointy tip of Sharptop Mountain, though it's more obscured by treetops than in the past. From this... More »
Laura
This.
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(I was rummaging around in my bookshelves looking for Leslie Marmon Silko's Book Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit when I ran across, among other things, an old clothbound journal I used to... More »
Laura
Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday. --Zora... More »
Laura
A Singer with Eyes of Sand A singer with eyes of sand they said-- the western wind sweeps me home and I am carrying you, my desert, in my hands. --Arthur Sze, from The Redshifting... More »
Laura
Calamities Out beyond what we imagine. Out beyond the familiar, leaving home and being homeless. Breaching the seas, foundering on a coast in the West, searching along coastlines in the Far East. The heart is... More »
Laura
A good day. laughter with my students and a relatively satisfying discussion about authorial presence and voice in historical fiction tonight in class. big wispy orange moon rising up over the mountains with a long... More »
Laura
The search may begin with a restless feeling, as if one were being watched. One turns in all directions and sees nothing. Yet one senses that there is a source for this deep restlessness, and... More »
Laura
"When there is no place that you have decided to call your own then no matter where you go you are always headed home." --Muso Soseki This quote sits in the middle of a... More »
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