Continue Reading The Year of the Fire Horse On Tuesday I stood in line early to watch the celebration of the Lunar New Year at Lan Su Chinese Garden. The…
Continue Reading Brain Balls (556) The Brain, within its GrooveThe Brain, within its GrooveRuns evenly—and true—But let a Splinter swerve—’Twere easier for You—To put a Current back—When…
Continue Reading Random Thoughts. Not the most gripping title, I know. But that is what happened during a walk yesterday, a walk that you would have…
Continue Reading Mars on my Mind. Well, well, well. Mars plans scuttled, with new attention instead directed to the moon by Musk, or so I hear. Another failed…
Continue Reading Daffodils. Oskar Zwintscher Portrait with Daffodils (1907) This is how I look today: red nose, running like a faucet, teary eyes, head cold stuffing…
Continue Reading Without End In the Evening By Else Lasker-Schüler, translated by Eavan Boland. *** It was pure coincidence that I visited Cara Levine’s exhibition Without End at the…
Continue Reading Springsteen and Springfield. The Boss composed, recorded and published a new song this weekend, honoring the victims of the killings in Minneapolis and decrying the…
Continue Reading A Prayer under Eucalyptus Trees. I am not the praying kind, but you can hear me occasionally mumbling to the universe in general, sometimes begging, sometimes announcing…
Continue Reading Foggy Times. Walk with me, up and down the hills of the San Ramon Valley, morning fog enhancing the beautiful shapes of the leafless…
Continue Reading On the Road. I am traveling, just like the snow geese. A friend reminded me of this poem, fit for Martin Luther King Day. Even…
