May 2012
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thunder crests the hill; the cat Linger’s on the porch dry, nibbling chicken.
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Confederacy
the good news: we live in a federation where progressive states can amend their laws to help assure equality.
the neutral news: we live in a federation, where voters in backwards states can add laws that will drive many educated and openminded citizens to go live in more progressive states.
the bad news: we live in a federation, where the grandchildren of many backwards voters will grow up to...
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I read about Maurice Sendak’s dysfunctional family, his parents to whom he never “came out”. His parents, who lost all their kin in The Holocaust. I think about our species, capable of systematic, soul-deadening atrocity. Together, they produced this man who pronounced himself too fucked up to raise children, who never stopped being angry.
Who wrote children’s books. I...
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“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
– Maurice Sendak
(1928-2012)
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champion of nocturnal play, the year’s first lightning bug beckons at the window.
April 2012
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March 2012
6 posts
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a strange summer night: i sleep beneath spring stars, under leafless trees.
#hammock #haiku
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“Our best hope not just as a nation but as a civilization is that we raise our...”
– Robert X. Cringely
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female cardinals red and gray, bruised rain clouds, linger over seeds.
#spring #haiku
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in the night, dripping wet blanket on the line, laden with spring rain — you on my mind.
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welkin flowstone moon over Appalachia, winter’s waning glow.
#HearthHill
February 2012
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“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
– Julia Cameron
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a myth is a formula without enough data.
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innovation is 5% inspiration, 95% desperation.
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“Worrying is like praying to the things you don’t want.”
– #quote from The Wailin’ Jennys
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spiraling around the germ of an idea, some years old now; like a comet, sometimes nearer, then sometimes away.
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forgotten fodder, where sun peels back the blanket: feathered flurry.
#winter #HearthHill #haiku
January 2012
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busy eyes dreaming in circles achieve nothing.
OR
dreaming in circles, my sleeping eyes achieved nothing.
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“A well-organized, well-funded, well-connected, well-experienced lobbying effort...”
– Alex Howard
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its vibrating leaves renouncing winter’s breeze, the evergreen shivers.
#HearthHill #winter #haiku
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“Every atom in each of our bodies was built up out of smaller particles produced...”
– Kevin Kelly
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Mykl's 110% Whole Graham Bread+
this (along with my cornbread and Ambiguous Biscuits) is the quick bread recipe I’ve returned to, over and over again, for 30 years. scratch cooking so easy, i can mix it even before the coffee brews.
ingredients:
2 cups - whole wheat flour
1/8-1/4 cup - wheat germ, wheat bran and/or oat bran (optional)
4 teaspoons - baking powder
1/2 teaspoon - salt
1-2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup -...
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“Sometimes we don’t need to pursue happiness. We just need to pause and let...”
– Rabbi Sacks
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December 2011
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winter shuffles its boots on the mat, and day barely winks at the night.
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sometimes i feel like a long cold winter is coming, and i haven’t cut enough wood for the fire.
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drowning a cold is the best remedy i know of.
on the first day of noteworthy symptoms, i drink a gallon of water, avoid stress or exertion, then sleep as much as my body will permit. (if available, i also take 1000% the RDA of vitamin-C, preferably a natural supplement.)
on Friday morning, Thursday’s throat tiger was was little more than a pussy cat.
if i’m smart, i walk wide of stress and great exertion for a couple more days,...
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indulgent lie-in shushes morning’s throat tiger, whispering hoarse threats.
#headcold #haiku
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a passing lullaby, the freight train repeats itself, echoing childhood.
#midnight #haiku
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smoking black firefly, repetitious freight train, echoing childhood.
#lullaby #haiku
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a passing lullaby, the freight train repeats itself, echoing midnight.
#haiku
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trying my damnedest to find a better wine than (i remember) this (being). failing.
November 2011
9 posts
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gentle rain stipples the wind ruffled waters of the West Fork
#HearthHill #haiku
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Watchtoday i am giving thanks for two things: our nation’s founders, who ratified the Bill of Rights. and all the Occupiers, asserting those rights. thank you!
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nothing encourages respect for simple rain, like living in a floodplain.
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a squad of squirrels, scampering through the rain, collecting black walnuts.
#HearthHill #autumn #haiku
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frost melt the size of marbles, dripping off the porch roof, shine like crystal in the morning sun.
#HearthHill #autumn
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leafless trees winter gray stand swaying on autumn’s blanket brown.
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the reflected silhouettes of leafless trees fade into the murky mirror, the now sunless river, whispering:
day is done.
#autumn #HearthHill