thunder

planta

“An autumn night-don’t think your life didn’t matter.’

Matsuo Baksho

Wy

"We do not understand

grief, nor love's phases,

and what death keeps concealed

is not unveiled

Only song through the land

hallows and praises

Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus

#19

gather

drawing Carlito

dog

This prairie is amazing to me.  And life is everywhere.  Now, as I look at the distant four horses grazing as they have been in that spot for at least a couple of days, I think of other ways of being, of how they be, how their lives are here on this prairie beneath the sky, morning to high day’s sun, to evening to dark night and back to morning’s light.

everything

‘It will be like everything else.  There will be things you like and things you don’t like.  Depends on what you focus on.’  Dr. Gasper.

desert land

green

“Achilles’ mother grieves over her poor boy’s body,

And Memmnon’s mother too weeps for her dead child-

If even goddesses touched by death, though they

Themselves can never die, mourn fates of human sons,...”

Tom Sleigh, Amores, III, ix