Go to the river to find the nuggets; follow the nuggets to the lode. I have to recognize that, though…
Fresh refers to things recently made or acquired, things not yet used, and more generally, to things (including situations) experienced…
Let’s be clear. Encountering is making common cause with the livingness of an other addressed as ‘you’. It is not…
Life, living, lively, live: these words are term commonly understood and used, but livingness? We generally have little trouble recognizing…
The Backdoor Once upon a time, there was a world to be made. How to start? In the workshop of…
Nothing in the mundane world can’t be, and hasn’t been, weaponized, that is, made into an instrument of domination or…
What we admire about nature and history is the on-going open-endedness of their creativity. In the case of nature, all…
Trodden-on snow, stiff or slushy, makes for irksome walking. But skis and wind together are an altogether other way of…
That “It’s you, I know you’re there, I see you” glance is the epitome of the encounter. Reciprocated, it is…
Yesterday, driving home from a walk, I saw Jeremy, my mail carrier, disappearing down the road into the dark of…