“We only have this time, each of us, 70 or 80 years, if we’re lucky. What’s the point of hiding?” That’s the last quote in an interview with Bill Callahan, linked by Austin Kleon in his weekly email newsletter. https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/bill-callahan-shepherd-in-a-sheepskin-vest-interview/ That’s an awesome thought. So what’s the point of putting the quote at the endContinue reading “‘Keep a mailing list’”
Category Archives: Just sayin’
A whisper of peregrination
It has been a sedentary couple of weeks as I have fended off what I insist is a typical winter cold, mainly because I have never had the fever that heralds you-know-what. Perhaps I would be decried as Omicron Superspreader, supervillain extraordinaire, except that I have been working mostly from home and have kept toContinue reading “A whisper of peregrination”
Messengers from beyond
A cardinal perches in the tree outside my window. If the legend is true, and a cardinal is a soul who has left my world, who is this crimson bird come to visit? Mom? Dad? My brother? Willow The Best Dog There Was? Brother of Red? Tom or Diane Brooker? It was at the Brookers’Continue reading “Messengers from beyond”
Siesta
Here I am, taking up pen and paper again after a long winter’s nap. The first part of the day, before I slept, felt like being in a haze, under water — but at the time it felt normal. Not until I woke up from the nap did I realize how clear my mind isContinue reading “Siesta”
The W.B. Primer
Around New Year’s, blogger Toirdhealbheach Beucail reprinted his “Primer,” an introduction in which he explained a bit about himself and his life for those of us who have entered in the middle of his story, and I thought that was a lovely idea, so I’m adapting it for today. Who I am From my officialContinue reading “The W.B. Primer”
Thank you, and Happy New Year
One of my regular stops in the morning rotation, Toirdhealbheach Beucail, devoted his New Year’s Eve blog post to thanking folks for visiting during the course of the year, which struck me as a lovely gesture and worth imitating. And so thank you, fellow traveler, for browsing past this website from time to time. IContinue reading “Thank you, and Happy New Year”
W.B.’s Top Ten of 2021
Well, there goes 2021, gone in a blur, a year that was better than 2020 in some ways because people emerged from house arrest enforced isolation, and a year that was worse than 2020 in some ways because of the frustrating refusal of so many people to recognize they’re being played. If I were toContinue reading “W.B.’s Top Ten of 2021”
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