March 2011
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My Life
My whole life is mine, but whoever says so will deprive me, for it is infinite. The ripple of water, the shade of the sky are mine; it is still the same, my life. No desire opens me: I am full, I never close myself with refusal- in the rhythm of my daily soul I do not desire-I am moved; by being moved I exert my empire, making the dreams of night real: into my body at the bottom of the water I...
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“Language and the human spirit are inextricably intertwined. We interpret the...”
– Jim Cummins, Language and the Human Spirit (2003)
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The Poet
Out of the deep and the dark, A sparkling mystery, a shape, Something perfect, Comes like the stir of the day: One whose breath is an odor, Whose eyes show the road to stars, The breeze in his face, The glory of heaven on his back. He steps like a vision hung in air, Diffusing the passion of eternity; His abode is the sunlight of morn, The music of eve his speech: In his sight, One shall turn from...
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“Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word “race”...”
– Jacques Barzun, Race: a Study in Modern Superstition (1937)
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Creed
Laugh, laugh at all my dreams! What I dream shall yet come true! Laugh at my belief in man, At my belief in you. Freedom still my soul demands, Unbartered for a calf of gold. For still I do believe in man, And in his spirit, strong and bold. And in the future I still believe Though it be distant, come it will When nations shall each other bless, And peace at last the earth shall fill.
Shaul...
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“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to...”
– Dōgen
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Alone
The hills git awful quiet, when you have to camp alone. It’s mighty apt to set a feller thinkin’. You always half way waken when a hoss shoe hits a stone, Or you hear the sound of hobble chains a clinkin’. It is then you know the idees that you really have in mind. You think about the things you’ve done and said. And you sometimes change the records that you nearly always find In the back of...
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“The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with...”
– John Amos Comenius
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Love of Beauty
Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we see; The gods give him a vision doubly blest; He sees the bloom upon the hawthorn-tree, But blossoms, too, that are not quite expressed. He hears the music in the lyric rain, The lark’s enraptured notes that wake the dawn; But far behind them one diviner strain That is not uttered till the first is gone.
Charles Hanson Towne
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“The free man measures himself and his spirit not by others, but by himself. His...”
– Ahad Ha’am
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The Touch
The trees have kept some lingering sun in their branches, Veiled like a woman, evoking another time, The twilight passes, weeping. My fingers climb, Trembling, provocative, the line of your haunches. My ingenious fingers wait when they have found The petal flesh beneath the robe they part. How curious, complex, the touch, this subtle art— As the dream of fragrance, the miracle of sound. I...
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