Posted in favorite things, wonder on February 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
May your trails be crooked,
winding, lonesome,
dangerous, leading to the most amazing
view.
May your rivers flow without end,
meandering through pastoral valleys
tinkling with bells,
past temples and castles and poets’ towers
into a dark primeval forest where tigers
belch and monkeys howl,
through miasmal and mysterious swamps
and down into a desert of red rock,
blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and
grottos of [...]
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Posted in Issa, haiku, poetry on February 17, 2007 | No Comments »
meadow butterflies–
the cow also
gazes
-Issa, 1806
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Posted in animal rights on February 8, 2007 | No Comments »
“My first lesson in animal rights was taught to me by a small white rat that I took home from the college psychology lab. …
‘Ratsky’ lived for some months in a cage in my bedroom. And in her cage, she behaved the way I assumed rats behave. But when I started leaving the cage door open [...]
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Posted in favorite things, poetry on February 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.
W. H. Auden from “The Fall of Rome”
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“An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy, whistler-in-the-dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will [...]
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