Even happiness worries sometimes.
quotes
Threads
Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.
Sepulturæ
Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time.
“Time! where didst thou those years inter
Which I have seene decease?” —Wm. Habington
Seek & find
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
—Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune, 1985
What 45 feels like at 3 a.m.
Middle age — a stealthy, crafty nemesis.
Jettison
Middle age is a heap of abandoned ideals.
Speedway
The world is changing so fast I’ve got societal vertigo.
Fall, fall!
Fall, temperatures, fall, fall! Let the weather mellow and the year drift into peacefulness.
Prickly & proverbial
Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.
Falling
Fear is imagination falling off a cliff.
Essence
A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.
Final draft
When the poem just won’t come out right, sometimes the best revision is to crumple it up and throw it poetically into the trash.
After all
Life is a perpetual give and take with the universe.