A goose landing on water.

Club

We have challenges enough, do we not? With every day presenting its difficulties, a multitude of...

A Close up view of green blades of grass.

The Mower

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found   
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,

Black and white photo of a young woman with a comical sneer on her face.

Unwokened

I called her beautiful, although I don’t believe she heard it.
But others did, and so began, a little trial with a verdict...

Picture of my unadorned bedroom.

Spartan

Well gang, I guess it’s time I confess that I’ve been posting these last few months...

Front covers of A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and The Best of Saki

Delicious Gifts

Treats received today from my good friend Will Leathem. I read them immediately...

Steve Lacy

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that...You will never hear anything more free than that...

Black and white photo of a younger Joan Didion. She is facing the camera on a crowed sidewalk.

Gaze

I imagine her attention falling to me, just for a moment, in this crowd, out on the street...

Photo of a hawk in flight agains a bright blue sky.

Soon

"There is a kind of life that is peculiar to the land in summer—a wariness, a seasonal equation of well-being and alertness..."