The Backward Look
Several nights ago we attended a performance of Bob Seger’s music at the Paramount Theater in Aurora. The band was first rate, the lead singer in a fitting manner honored Bob Seger who is eighty years old. Seger the balladeer wrote and performed world-creating music. That is what music does, rhythm, rhyme, harmony and…
On Good Taste
Three years ago I planted some oriental lily bulbs at the edge of our yard. The lily bed interfaces with the creek bed. Also a large boulder with a natural notch impressed me as the ideal resting place for a carved stone heart. The stone heart is about the size of a bowling ball….
Manufactured Innocence
The Song of the Idiot They do not hinder me. They let me go.They say, nothing could happen even so.How good.Nothing can happen. Everything revolves engrossedalways around the Holy Ghost,around a certain ghost (you know)—how good.No, one should really not supposethat there is any danger in those.There’s of course the blood.The blood is the…
A Mind, Like Space
49 The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people. She is good to people who are good. She is also good to people who aren’t good. This is true goodness. She trusts people who are trustworthy. She also trusts people who aren’t trustworthy. This is true…
About Chaos
38 The Master doesn’t try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough. The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done. The kind man does something,…
Ball Room Carousel
We visited the St Joe’s Silver Beach Carousel while on vacation. St Joseph is situated on a bluff overlooking Silver Beach. The beach is aptly named. Gazing west toward Lake Michigan which shimmers, a mystical presence, I am reminded of the “goodness,” to risk saying it plainly, of “the love” which is inscribed into life….
The Face Of One Little Child
This single flowerhas leaves and rootsthat take nourishment fromthe environing soil and air. And the soil contains the distilled nutrientsof past growth and decay that constitute the living ecological systemin which all of its participants are organically interdependent. The sun enables the flower to process these nutrients,while the atmosphere that caresses the floweralso nourishes…
A Chrysalis Breaks
Monday morning, resuming my ordinary life, two cups of dark roast, reading and now a bit of writing here at Starbucks. Agreeable conversation with two friends is welcome. I am grounded by others… I know that to be so from experience. Friends remind me I am not “that” guy I assumed that I was….
Calling All Angels
Leaving Michigan. Another family vacation, swimming in the lake, sitting under a beach sun, watching four grandchildren play – becomes memory. And the country, the world staggers on, to what end as always, is unknowable. Woke up this morning to read of the President of the United State’s threats to Rosie O’Donnell to remove…
