by eyes cast down | May 20, 2014 | Poems
On further review, a couple of the poems in the old Divinations series turned out to be publishable as they were… This one speaks to my musical vocation, which bloomed a little late – but at least it has… Ivory Sunrise Old worn wooden shell Dingy...
by eyes cast down | May 16, 2014 | Adventures in Living
Kalman Cat left us in mid-April, just a few days before his 18th birthday. When we left the house early that morning, he was fine. When my wife returned home around 10am, he was breathing rapidly, very uncomfortable and – most unusual for him – completely withdrawn....
by eyes cast down | Apr 30, 2014 | Poems
Early in this blog’s life, I posted five poems from the mid-’90s, which I collectively call Divinations (after the book that would have contained them all). If you missed them, feel free to filter using the “Poems” tag, and there they are....
by eyes cast down | Nov 14, 2013 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
My wife and I have taken several long-weekend trips to the Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center near Bloomington, IN, and from the first visit (18 months ago), it became our go-to getaway place. It features pervasive quiet, pristine grounds for walking, deer...
by eyes cast down | Jul 27, 2013 | The Creative Life
Over the Horizon It’s become a fairly amusing year-end ritual: I undertake – in all sincerity – a recap of the year just ended, along with plans for the New Year. Case in point: my 2012 review. The amusement stems from my well-earned awareness that...