When at sea, I like to station myself at the prow. I like the way the word sounds, with all the shaping required by the lips. Not all words require such effort to utter, and this one also enjoys a bit of propulsion. It’s a word that sounds like what it is: moving through...
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Here is a meditation piece for shabbat. This carrier pigeon brings its HAPPY PURIM message to you one day early!
It has travelled from a 20th century, war-torn Purim, on a day when the Allies were dropping carrier pigeons into France in an attempt to communicate...
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The Pinacates is one of the most ferociously beautiful places on Earth – it is within the lands of the Tohono O’odham tribe. It’s part of the gorgeous Sonoran Desert, just south of what is currently the Arizona-Mexico border but for thousands of years...
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I wonder what migratory birds think of Los Angeles. Perhaps they felt as I did in the Muslim villages of North Africa, where I spent days without seeing another...
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German artist Paetrick Schmidt created this phenomenal collage painting and sent it my way in response and conversation with last week’s Edisto Bottle Tree essay…a long tirade comparing antebellum-era...
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A family legend tells that in the late 1700s, an ancestor was scalped by the Catawba and Edisto tribes on Edisto Island, South Carolina, along the shores of the...
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Getting struck by lightning last week over the ocean – and in a 757 – gave me an unexpected but perhaps not perversely unwelcome glimpse into the cosmic beauty...
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One of the first mornings in my glorious new studio downtown, and what happiness – I discovered a long-lost yet lovely pair of reading spectacles deep within an ancient...
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THE NEW NEST, BEFORE FULL FEATHERING
For the past month, the blog – like any good egg – has been experiencing a cozy winter’s incubation while I’ve been feathering the...
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Stalking hedgerows – like a fox, I’ve been skirting fields, stalking stalks of corn, looking for trespassing signs, hunting signs, signs of life, secrets of history within the wires.
The...
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Another evening’s word doodle with a handful of now-familiar words cut out of the New York Review of Books. Here is the last batch.
Words, a fireplace, a cat, a...
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The etching gets a bath! A zinc plate covered in brown grounding substance, scratched away with a little stylus.
It’s amazing that this wee bamboo brush survives a dunking in...
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