“What is your vocation? The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
— Frederick Buechner
Today’s Quote
March 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Today’s Quote
March 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
–Mark Twain
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Today’s Still Life
March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Two bald eagles this morning waiting for spring salmon
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Today’s Poem
March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Realization
Why is the tumor so dark in the pictures?
How long has it been there?
How big is it?
Does it have cousins?
What does it want?
Can I reason with it?
Why does it have the best real estate?
I have dinner plans on Thursday.
I don’t have time for this.
Response: “blah blah blah.”
This was not on the itinerary.
It is just unacceptable.
If my excursion is cut short,
I want to be compensated for the loss.
And I want at least ten extra column inches in the newspaper –
Above the fold.
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Today’s Erasure Poem
March 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Anew (erasing Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The depth and breadth and height
of old griefs
when feeling out of sight
with lost saints,
put passion to use –
everyday Being turn
to breath and chosen Grace
and count the ways of love.
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Today’s Ormonym Poem
March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Wanted: An Understanding
Insinuate
That you, as I, impatient moan,
Nor longer can (so tumid grown
In breath, in blood, in pore, in pate,
In sinew) wait!
Vow you’ve nipped apples of your own
In sin! (You ate
Your share, I’m bound) Admit it, mate –
In sin you wait.
–Willard Espy
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Today’s Still Life
March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Today’s Journal Entry
March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We read that, in the States, corporations are now legal persons. So by extension, the stock market is now a slave market and subject to anti-slavery laws. Seems fitting. Now if only the CEOs and boards of directors of insurance companies would be brought forth in chains during trading hours.
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Todays Poem
March 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Bike Trail
Canvasback ducks
way below me on the river
like a handful of black eyed peas
tossed on a blue quilt,
goes by before
I can stop
to wonder.
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Anagrams For “Glenn Beck Show”
March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Belch News, Kong!
Welch Bong Neck
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The View Up The River Today
February 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Taken with my iPhone and the 5.0 Meg MPX app
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Todays Journal Entry
February 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The newspaper said the tsunami that hit Hawaii yesterday was the best kind.
It was too small to do damage but large enough to remind people about tsunamis. If a tsunami travels across an ocean at five hundred miles an hour, arrives on your doorstep like a runaway train and leaves no damage in it’s wake, is it really a punami?
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Today’s Poem
February 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By The Library
Two men were singing in a parking lot.
No one on the street seemed to notice.
Or we did but we were bothered,
On our way to where ever we were going.
Like the poet who read before the band played,
Or the redwing blackbird in back of the pizza place.
It’s not what you expect.
It’s like gathering up your day like an armload of groceries
And a can of corn falls and rolls under a counter.
You are tempted to leave it
But you know you can’t.
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Today’s Poem
February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
From The Universe
Tumor.
Bummer.
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Today’s Nature Writing Quote
February 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
‘ … a place where nature only suffers in disgrace.
A country so deformed, the traveller
would swear those parts natures Pudenda were:
Like warts and wens, hills on one side swell,
to all but natives inaccessible.’
–Charles Cotton in 1681 describing Derbyshire
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Today’s Journal Entry
February 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We read that a fifty light year radius shell of analog tv and radio signals is rippling out from earth to wash over the stars and nebulae. Some scientists worry that, with the change to digital broadcasting, our message in a bottle may never be found by other life forms, that in fact our signal has become noise and there are only fifty light years worth of I Love Lucy reruns beamed out among the stars to tell our story. Not to worry. The other life forms note that Ricky and Lucy Ricardo have already done sufficient “splainin” on our behalf and are pleased to change the channel.
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Today’s Poem
February 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Wet Dog
I am a wet dog
Lying on my back.
Wriggling on the good new rug,
It’s my drying rack.
I almost died, cut me some slack.
My peeps took me to the vet,
God how they fussed over me,
But I’m back now in the pack.
Now I think I’ll sleep a bit,
Unless you want to play.
Hurry up with your answer,
I haven’t got all day.
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Today’s Erasure Poem
February 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Evening (erasing Robert Frost)
Stopping here, little horse,
Where the sweep of wind and evening promises–
The snow, the village, the farmhouse,
The woods and the frozen lake,
Dark, harness bells,
The easy wind and
Miles to go.
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Today’s Eye Rhyme Poem
February 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Getting Ready For Eternity
I see your height, I feel your weight
And watch you sew, to hew the new.
Laid in my tomb, without a comb,
This awful rouge would I gouge –
In hubris is debris.
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Today’s Sonnet
February 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Altitude
I have walked below the brooding Cho Oyo in it’s slumber,
Seen the tempest avalanche unravel the sleeve of care.
I have feared Tibetan traders in their wild low tents of umber,
Seen nature’s cruel indifference take weary partners unawares.
I have pounded up the trail towards heaven
Following Orion and his dogs to where
I could taste both lump and leaven
In life’s hearth bread and wanted more.
And when no earthly food would strengthen
I held my breath and did implore
The traders my load to un-encumber
Take it with them to some distant shore.
They laughed, offering tea in their tents of umber.
With bitter herbs in wooden bowls, they fed and left a deeper hunger.
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