Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies
Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …
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Water with a Razor’s Edge
One of my favorite pastimes when we were sailing was watching the wake the boat made slipping through still waters. …
My Roman Oaks
Recently we had visitors who had just returned from Italy. We talked of how easily you can stumble upon ancient …
Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass
Meditation at Lagunitas By Robert Hass All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old …
Wheeling Away on the Isle of Pines
Certain poems I return again and again to tap into a state of mind that I was experiencing while writing …
Sated by Scent. A Quest
Lately I’ve become obsessed by scent. Perfume, to be more precise. I seldom wear it and know little of it, …
Wabi Sabi Writing
One of the things I love most about reading is discovering in another’s words something about myself that I had …
“A Scattering of Rocks” — Zen in the Garden of Eden
Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the world–than through poetry. So …
Riffing on Roses
Lately I’ve been playing with roses, photographing them at different stages in bloom, at different times of day, against varied backgrounds, just …
Sea Saga, Part III – First Stop in Paradise, the Virgin Islands
“This is where it all begins,” Dale whispers to me we take off, rising through layers of clouds thick as …
