PRAYING
cindyphillips Praying by Mary Oliver It doesn’t have to bethe blue iris, it could beweeds in a vacant lot, or a fewsmall stones; justpay attention, then patch a few words together…
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Who are YOU?
I go up to Powder Magazine Hill most days, sometimes only as a shortcut over the hill down to the village, sometimes to meditate at sunrise or sunset, regularly to…
SOMETIMES AN ALBUM IS ONLY GOOD BECAUSE IT CAME OUT WHEN I WAS 16?
When I filled out the Proust Questionnaire, and wrote about my experience of being happy, and of the personal wealth that is contained in my recollections of that bliss, I…
BLACK DOG
Winston Churchill was so accustomed to visits by depression that he had a nickname for it - his ‘Black Dog’. Other sufferers of depression have since found Churchill’s ‘Black Dog’…
RE-ENTRY TRAUMA; HOLD ME CLOSER
I like a movie adaptation that has been true to the original novel, and so a favourite film to watch is The Age of Innocence. It is legendary director Martin…
Chasing after Lijsbeth Arabus
Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but…
REGARDING THE WALK
flaneuse / noun:the dictionaries explain only that it is the feminine of flaneur “And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.Because he loved true things, he…
STONE LOVE
FINDING GHOSTS IN THE HOUSES OF THE HOLY “The domestic details of north-country farmhouse life are among the things to which Beatrix Potter gave herself most completely. A well-scrubbed flag…
August Winds
With a beating heart I deleted my original Facebook account this week after 18 years of almost daily use. It was a brutal severance, a savage cut, and it left…
CONSTANTLY RISKING ABSURDITY
The American Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti first published “Constantly Risking Absurdity” in his 1958 collection A Coney Island of the Mind. The poem compares the poet to an acrobat who…