Christmas

 

What God did not give.

 

Odette

“he felt that he now hated Odette, he would gladly have crushed those eyes which, a moment ago, he had loved so dearly.”  Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
 

poste

 

Well, like any other time.

 

Yes, Norman, it's true. There's a lot to like about you.

 

Come back Lem.

“If one took them into intimate sleep and slept

deeply with the Things, ah, how light he 

would grow!”

Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, #14

Begin anew

Gillette

As I consider how I might feel in the new house on Hay Creek and then look at a photo of me in Shirley’s house, I think, “I wish that I had said to myself way back, ‘If I quit this job and this place, I will never see the light against the wood on the frame of the kitchen window again.’" 

nigh to midnight

"It was nigh to midnight and it had set into rain when he woke us."  As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

clowns and love

big

in plain sight

here

"The Lord has kept it there, you mean,"  Uncle Billy says, "I dont know ere a man that's touched hammer to it in twenty-five years."  William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

O proximo dia

Easter-spring-horses

only

"We think only about ourselves, only about what we want."  Father Peter, Blessed Sacrament Church

proudly

In accepting ends, we accept life.

Tutti

"Experiencing the joy of making certain choices..." Sharon Salzberg

dust to dust

Arroz con leche e tres tamales de polo

Snowy Mountain, WY

" In winter there is too much ice.

In summer

ice is very nice."  

Karla Kushkin

2020