“and so it is with persons. You can do very many things with us: push us together and pull us apart and squeeze us and roll us flat, empty us out and fill us up. You can surround us with influences, but there comes a point when you can do no more. The person resists, in one way or another (if it is only by collapsing, like the clay). His own will ( Read more... )

i've been in los angeles a week yesterday. today is the last day of sleeping in the dream cottage in the garden of eden. tomorrow we leave for the small, hot, rural town of Laton, san joaquin valley to start a project "with generous funding from the ford foundation." we'll be sharing a jam-packed adventure with juniors and senior undergrads at Otis ( Read more... )

last night i went down to the beach, at dusk. the sun had already set behind the hazy mountain line to the north, and the moon was rising to the south in a pink and grey rain sky ( Read more... )

now that i live in los angeles, now what ( Read more... )