Category Archives: Chaos and Order

2 More Spring Poems

Posted on April 4, 2017 by randomyriad

Territory Birds are pissed off, All day long alarming boundaries, Flashing colors, Screaming dawn til dusk.  chill is out. Babies need breakfast. Thoughts invaded.   ________________ Dream Spring There were always these Soft motions Toward swaying Tenderly underwater a breeze Filmy … Continue reading →

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The Universe is a Messy Place to Play . . .

Posted on March 26, 2017 by randomyriad

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum morbid phenomena of the most varied kind come to pass.” Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci Art by and Photo credit: … Continue reading →

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Education Does not Prepare You for Life: Life is Your Education.

Posted on January 15, 2017 by randomyriad

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading … Continue reading →

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A Balanced View into a New Year.

Posted on January 1, 2017 by randomyriad

A New Year’s Perspective: John Steinbeck on Good and Evil, the Necessary Contradictions of the Human Nature, and Our Grounds for Lucid Hope By Maria Popova Speaking of the happy new year, I wonder if any year ever had less … Continue reading →

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Earthquake Weather

Posted on December 31, 2016 by randomyriad

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.       Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness   “Looks like earthquake weather,” my grandfather used to say this often … Continue reading →

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