Poems For These Times
Worst Day Ever?
This poem must be read straight through, top to bottom, then, as the poet instructs, read again from the bottom to the top. It’s a brilliant lesson in the power […]
Take All the Time You Need
I’ve returned to the “real world” as of yesterday. I did watch all 32 films in the Mill Valley Film Festival that I had planned to, and will try to […]
Remembering the Preciousness and Deep Purposes of Life
Learning from every film this week in the Mill Valley Film Festival, the utter preciousness of each human life, and the lives of all the creatures we share this planet […]
Poetry for the Truest Conversations and Connections
This week I’m deeply immersed in the Mill Valley Film Festival, witnessing the sorrows, struggles, and sustaining connections among human beings facing some of the most serious challenges in life […]
Retirement to Renaissance to Reverence
My retirement curriculum certainly has been leading me into Renaissance, and that means a lot of new learning, and a lot of unlearning the old. [See Old Turning Paradigms Upside […]
You are not obligated to complete the work…
Perhaps more awareness from watching the entire The U.S. and the Holocaust series now streaming on PBS. Perhaps more awareness from many prayers and blessings sent by Jewish friends for […]
The Perspective of Long, Deep Time
I’ve just returned from an 8-day Wilderness Travel trip kayaking and bushwhacking through Glacier Bay and the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. A trip booked originally in August 2019 from […]
Silent and Overflowing Leisure
The summer peacefulness that the poet Rabindranath Tagore evokes below, the dedication to life in a silent and overflowing leisure, has become a more frequent experience in my retirement. Yes, […]
John O’Donohue on Retirement
When I posted and emailed to friends John O’Donohue’s For a New Beginning, a good friend sent in return O’Donohue’s poem For Retirement. I had lost track of it, even […]
Take All the Time You Need
My Gourmet Poets Society meets this weekend; some of us meeting in person, masked, outdoors in the garden. Some joining by Zoom. In the process of de-cluttering, which seems a […]