May 2013
10 posts
“Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?”
April 2013
17 posts
A Promise to California
A promise to California,
Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain,
to teach robust American love,
For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you,
inland, and along the Western sea;
For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
Walt Whitman
March 2013
10 posts
Full Worm Moon: March
“As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time...
I used to feel like I was cut into that place.
I’d like to watch the clouds gather. Watch the big weather come in. I’d like to stand in a storm and hear the earth ringing. I’m thinking of canyons and lightening … And there is nothing more free than this.
Jay Allison Subtext: Communicating with Horses
“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. ‘I am watching you — are you watching yourself in me?’ Most travelers hurry too...
Endless Streams and Mountains
BY GARY SNYDER
Ch’i Shan Wu Chin
Clearing the mind and sliding in
to that created space,
a web of waters steaming over rocks,
air misty but not raining,
seeing this land from a boat on a lake
or a broad slow river,
coasting by.
The path comes down along a lowland stream
slips behind boulders and leafy hardwoods,
reappears...
February 2013
15 posts
