(Not what you think). Finding old things — I’d write, “again” but they were lost once and only found this first time — recalls the moment the things were lost: I don’t know that that’s a good thing, just that it’s a potent thing, capsulizing sentiments in a punch of the moment. Rereading favorite books [...]
Received a few days of showers in the night and day and whenever the sky offered up the beauteous drops, as it has since this past Saturday, along with cooler, much cooler temperatures. God is good. I mentioned that to someone last weekend, who responded that God should have been good a week earlier — [...]
Southern California from our Earth’s near atmosphere, Associated Press/NASA. Note: Excellent NASA satellite images of the fires throughout the full episode from 2003 can be found here. That huge opaque, beige swatch of smoke (from the fires) that can be seen in the upper area above the white cloudy parts is why there was literally [...]
Earlier today, I saw my first lavendar sky, after the past five days’ ochre soup of an atmosphere. Lavendar, and then some whispy white clouds blowing in from the Pacific. Lavendar sky, meaning there was still enough grey stuff to color down the blue sky overhead, but at least not to blank it out as [...]
PENSIVE. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and most of yesterday,the noonday hour here in Orange County, CA was deceptively like a normal day’s six o’clock in an evening. The air outside was thick with falling ash, the plants outside were covered in fallen ash, and on Sunday, the air outside was barely breathable. But, at least, it [...]
A heart like Rosemary, Photo Credit Unknown I considered too many words about the herb, Rosemary, until I embraced the three abundant plants just outside on the patio and returned indoors with the intoxicating scent of Rosemary oil on my face, and then I considered a rapt silence, something that would more honor such a [...]
Water boughs, dawn breaks, I am head first into the green wave. I’m pale, tumbling over ten or more times before bobbing loose to breathe. Fun with the Pacific Ocean, and I’m not even home yet. It’s an island in a dream, and my head bumps gently into the deep curb of the deeper end [...]
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