I know intelligent design doesn’t exist because whoever gave wings to
quotes
Hard to escape
Even happiness worries sometimes.
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.
Are you – Nowhere – too?
In grief, one is so lost. Grieving is pacing back and forth between past and present — and a feeling of no longer belonging to either place. A feeling of no longer belonging anywhere — because the heart is the map, and with the map suddenly rewritten, one is so lost.
Falling
Fear is imagination falling off a cliff.
Essence
A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.