The Slant of Afternoon, Playing with Light
A notebook full of poetry I had worked on for years has disappeared. Vanished. Many of the poems I never …
Tag Archives: Nature
Easter and Earth Day – “O Sweet Irrational Worship”
A timely blending to celebrate Easter and Earth Day by poet, monk, and mystic, Thomas Merton. O Sweet Irrational Worship …
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 …
“A Strange and Beautiful” Entanglement
Recently, when most needed, I came across the essay “A Beautiful and Strange Otherness” by Wisdom Bridge founder, Francis Weller. …
“Mostly Love, Now” and “The Cows at Night”
Since posting the speech by George Saunders I’ve been searching, without success for the poem he mentions by Hayden Carruth, …
Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives
I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …
Song of Me and Mine
Tonight as we marvel at the summer solstice super-moon, our family will be celebrating our daughter’s birthday. In remembrance of this lovely event, …
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 …
Redwoods and Waterfalls – Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
One of my favorite places to visit is the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, a two-hour drive …
