Prelude. “He comes to you and you are a white door full of bright light to be stepped through, open to him always, and illuminated. With him, you glow, shimmer and shine before your eyes through the dark and the breathing.” 11/25/08…
This week has been filled with laughter and hospitality. My gal B called me on Monday asking if I was home, and if I had any adult beverages. But of course. The fella owns the kegerator, so I’ve had to start getting…
Once again, I’d like to thank my people, for getting me out of the house and back up on it. Thank you all for being born, and for celebrating those days, and bringing us all together from wherever else we’d been. I’d…
Today, when all the world is deep frozen and drifting, but bright, I sit, the fire at my back, and try to heal. Outside is arctic, a polar vortex of frostbiting winds colder than Siberia, than the south pole, colder even than…
Did a late round of chores last night to try to get ahead of this storm… Zeus helped, in his fashion… Tearing through the snowdrifts as I took bedding and water to the hens, snuggled the beehive with strawbales, and filled the…
“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. I come to Hollins Pond not so much to learn how to live as, frankly, to forget about it. That is, I don’t think I can learn from a wild animal…