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I only knew that at the bottom of each breath there was a hollow place that needed to be filled. - Peter Matthiessen in The Snow LeopardI have been reading another one of my dad's Top Ten Favorite Books, the one referenced above. It's a "Nature/Travel" book, published in 1978, one of the few years during which my dad owned and operated his own " ( Read more... ) -
Notes on Artist Ran Ortner
The June issue of The Sun magazine has a spellbinding interview with an artist named Ran Ortner, known for his paintings of the ocean that are sometimes eight feet tall and thirty-two feet wide ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Kerouac's On the Road
"I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," my mom said to me about a year ago on the phone. We were having one of our weekly phone calls. My mom was on one extension and my dad on the other, in their home in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The three of us discussed the books we were reading, the films we had recently seen and the revelations and ( Read more... ) -
Wild Roads
Yesterday I finished reading Cheryl Strayed's memoir, Wild. She hiked the Pacific Crest Trail by herself when she was twenty-six years-old, reeling with grief from her mother's untimely death by cancer. I began reading this book six days after my mother found out that her breast cancer has recurred, this time in the bone of her mid humeral shaft.
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Ars Poetica | Czeslaw Milosz
I have always aspired to a more spacious form ( Read more... ) -
In Blackwater Woods | Mary Oliver
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Sacrifice
This sacrifice is brought to you by my father's sudden death on Feb. 18, 2012.
Please, make it count.......
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Twitterpated
We were spinning wishes in the phases of the moon that night when our burdens dissolved into a pool of liquid mica. You said divine rebellion is in the air and the darkness is ripe with receptivity ( Read more... ) -
She Comes and Goes.......
I sent a livejournal message to my sister tonight......she has been dead for seven years.
I also sent a message to lj support asking them to memorialize her livejournal account......her time on lj was brief. I read her posts over and over again. She is always just beginning to feel the bump of her unborn child within her. She is forever eating ( Read more... ) -
Some Assembly Required
Since the dawn of the square root of pi, many couples have longed to count among their progeny a holy fool. Holy fools are widely revered in such countries that house ornate churches and perform elaborate rituals praising those who appear to be mad, but in truth have attained the highest state of purity and blessedness in which poverty, disdain, ( Read more... )
