There is a thick fog out in the parking lot. I arrived an hour ago anticipating a sunrise. One hour later, the sun shines as always above this fog– but not around here, not now. I couldn’t find my bookmark in the book that I’m in the process of reading, Back On The Fire…
Thursday is cloud covered. Rain is expected at mid morning. I always welcome news of rain. Precipitation is irregular in our segment of the Midwest. No doubt the status quo obtains everywhere, on account of climate warming worldwide. Every place is caught in the vortex of weather patterns, whip-sawed by the release of atmospheric…
We may speak of “public land” or “private land,”but the truth is we are in the presence of an ancient mystery–life itself—and the great life communitieswithin which all beings thrive and die. The pines were contemporaries with the dinosaurs;the sequoias were a dominant forestthat swept across the north Pacific rimand into much of Asia,…
…we have entered a period in which global relations are defined by new nationalisms, religious fundamentalism, developed world hubris, stepped-up environmental damage, and everywhere expanding problems of health and poverty. What was to have been a “New World Order” is revealed as a greater disorder, much of it flowing from the top down. Disorder…
Two photos which recently came from the garden. The first are of tiny mushrooms growing in the organic debris at the side of the path. Wikipedia writes that these are Parasola genus of mushrooms. They are the size of an adult thumbnail. Likely the unseen underground filaments extend further than the visible umbrella-like shape….
A cloud shrouded sultry August morning… Another day begins. I realized that I inadvertently missed an appointment yesterday. No matter the note written in my day-timer, my memory is no longer as reliable as in my youth. I imagined the appointment for today’s afternoon. Therefore an apology is called for. I will apologize and…
Today I attended a Memorial Day event at a unincorporated farming community. I understand the town (a cross-roads) has less than 500 residents. However a very important occasion for the community is a service of remembrance for veterans that went to war and did not return to the place of their birth. Many are…
What is time? Is time simply awareness, awake to the incidence of transformation, that everything is on the move, a process of becoming other than “what”, …it was? That is one way to put it. There’s more than one way. No one finds a best way, a single, unequivocal definition of time. Time is…
When Zhuangzi was about to die, his disciples indicated their wish to prepare a grand burial. Zhuangzi remarked, “I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its cover, the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and the constellations for my pearls and jewels and all things…
Yin and yang reflected light on one another, enfolded one another; created order for one another. The four seasons followed one another, gave rise to one another and brought one another to an end. Likes and dislikes, which draw or repel, led to specific distinctness. from this came the separation and union of the…
