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“Few travelers pass that way at any time. Now that the snow has come, Whom can she hope to see On Yoshino’s steep mountain path?” As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan It Continue reading Explore Haibun
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” –Benjamin Mays
Zuihitsu-occasional writings,random jottings, brush strokes, stray notes, journal entries “made famous in The Pillow Book” Wikipedia’s definition of zuihitsu. This week I read The Narrow Road to the Interior Poems by Kimiko Hahn Here is an example of Kimoko Hahn’s Continue reading Zuihitsu
“It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part Continue reading Blog Action Day
“A child looking at ruins grows youngerbut coldand wants to wake to a new nameI have been younger in Octoberthan in all the months of springwalnut and may leaves the colorof shoulders at the end of summera month that has Continue reading The Love of October
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.Jessamyn West
The most beautiful of all is the music of what happens. Irish proverb There is one full day left of the residency and I have found it hard, no…difficult, to write here. This afternoon I got caught in a rainstorm Continue reading Rainy cold October
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself Continue reading Back at school