I was awakened by the rain drumming on the roof at 4 AM. My consciousness returned to the same sound years ago in Karuizawa Japan. We were there for our honeymoon. It was spring, the onset of rainy season and it rained off and on the entire week of our visit to the mountain…
I was reminded of how iconic the pumpkin has become of the fall season. Pumpkins are carved by children for Halloween jack o lanterns. The carvings are displayed by proud parents as decorations on the front porch. At the thanksgiving feast pumpkin is the main ingredient of a delicately spiced pie. I passed an…
Cannot help but think about aging. One must experience before one begins to know. I do not think that the failing of powers that come with the fading of youth would be intelligible if one were told ahead of time what is in store. How could one imagine the slow failure of eyesight, or…
Too much caffeine yesterday, I slept little last night. Today is another day. Like everyone else, a creature of habit, I begin my day with a cup of coffee. I know better, but here I am at Starbucks. Happened to hear this song playing on the radio: The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix. …
“Help me to forget today’s pain…….” Tuesday mid-afternoon and the empire staggers on. Too melodramatic? I hope so. I heard snippets of a report from the fires in Northern California. Santa Rosa is incinerated in the wind lashed wild fire. Wine country burns. At the very same time our head of the EPA is…
“This is some weird shit…..” is a statement coming out of the recesses of memory so far back that I doubt if I will ever remember who said it or what was being spoken of. It has a “hippie” texture, something coming from the era of “free” love, –“tune in, turn on, and drop…
The authorities yet search for pathology, something to isolate as a cause of the murder of 58 people in Las Vegas. Surely something caused this individual to step out of the matrix of time and place to impersonally wreak chaos upon the attendees of a country music festival. He orchestrated his own Ragnarök*. His…
Somehow it seems right to entitle this mornings words with the declaration that “love wins.” At the end of the shit-storm, a shining star remains in the dark night to guide us home. That star is the option of responding with love to circumstances such as they may be. Every man and woman’s…
Saturday and the morning sun is glorious on a day when rain is predicted. So much for prediction, our obsession with certainty. The FBI continues to dig deep, and search far and wide for a reason. There has to be a anchor point for ourselves, something, anything to separate us from one who murdered…
Found this superb video of The Who performing their magnificent anthem of resistance. The Who are performing live at Kilburn in 1977. They are in their prime. The issue comes down to what we will do with the “life force.” Will we individually and collectively utilize the energy, our heritage of elan from Nature,…
