The River of Life, and Death
I am not a religious man, but I think moving water is the best thing God ever made. -Jim Harrison Standing at the river’s edge, I watch sticks from old […]
nature
Twin Sons of Different Mothers
No matter how you parse it, I live in a world of black and white a great deal of the time, during the winter season. When the sun doesn’t shine,
I am a Dweller on the Threshold
It has taken four days to settle, to draw inward for a month-long stay at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico to compose stories…write this life….and it has taken four whole days, just
Find What You Love
Yesterday the leaves on the trees were clapping for you the wind all reckless and wild-fresh gusting with imaginings of us, of memories sloughed off with time yet lingering in
Impermanence, or Memoir Note #2
Nothing changes. The bones of the mammoth are still in the earth. -Adrienne Rich As I was reaching for the sweet potatoes this evening at dinner, I glimpsed my hand
Silence Spoken Here
I read a fascinating article recently by Gordon Hempton, an “acoustic ecologist” who for the past 25 years, has studied and recorded the vanishing sounds of nature. He says there