blog (July, 2005)
settlement drive
When you get to the end of the sentence, don't stop, because there are secrets waiting to be born of your own generosity, if you will be sincere, and honest, and open-hearted. Hearts.
...
Be an organization man without a gray flannel suit.
Organize the universe.
Be kind to everybody and everything.
Love is at the bottom of the whole concept: that's why it's got colors.-- Aram Saroyan, Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch & the Beat Generation
re-lease day?
Lead, kindly Light...
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.-- John H. Newman, "Lead, Kindly Light"
livingroom
endemic, now, no?
once-thoughts, but now, seconds-
and seconds away from choice and new chance
searching for a new home in lagging, lacking landscape
scrapyard wilderness;
self-promise, safe-keeping;
unearth groundswell, greenspace, undergrowth
ISO:
apt apart'ment, a prehension
a pt. in space --
a space ; a joint to
in habit at
riding loosened endings
tidings!
incremental anchor
Eyes&ears, and a place you stand on. Go easy on imported nightengales, if you don't know what the wood thrush sounds like. Be down to earth. Be earthy. Be at home where you are. Make the things in your rooms sacred by paying them attention, space, and quiet. Be silent more often before the loom of the world. Be nicer to rattlesnakes and trout lilies. And know what things are called.
-- Jonathan Williams, "Colonel Colporteur's Winsome-Salami Snake Oil (JW to His Students)", from The Magpie's Bagpipe