Category Archives: paying attention

Make Your Maps as You Go

How to Discover Your Own New Worlds Step 1: Lose the Way The first step . . . shall be to lose the way.– Galway Kinnell It’s important to forget what you are doing–then a work of art may happen. … Continue reading

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Moonset

Through a Winter Window As I procrastinate the moon is swallowed in the rising day’s rosy haze.

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My Mind is Up to Something

Pieces of Dreams The Night Before Last: I am in a crude wooden cage, dark thick boards nailed without care, in middle of a vast indoor space. Only a vague dim light shines on the area around the cage. The … Continue reading

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Trying to Avoid the Bubble Wrap

I hold a great deal against this system of organization, that is the separation of things that should not be separated. We categorize everyone. We send the old here: the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send … Continue reading

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We Are Making History

“Quantum physics tells us that no matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. The universe according to quantum physics, has no single past, … Continue reading

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