“Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.” –Susan Sontag A lovely description of books and why they are good companions, even in a pandemic. Read yesterday’s Thought. Thought of the Day (TOD) is selected by Rick Larios, Monday-Friday, minus public holidays and an arbitrarily chosen summer vacation. Saturday and […]
Still by Rae Armantrout Once we believed the bees, moving as attention does, settling and lifting from blue identicals, were the picture of eternity.*Practiced hands knitting, hole by hole, a great, shapeless scarf. Mind on something else.*A scarf? Something intensive. seen from afar. Something long –from Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) The […]
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero Read yesterday’s Thought. Thought of the Day (TOD) is selected by Rick Larios, Monday-Friday, minus public holidays and an arbitrarily chosen summer vacation. Saturday and Sunday, Stacey will be selecting TODs from the archives of past postings. Often, but not always, […]
“Anchor the eternity of love in your own soul and embed this planet with goodness.” John Lewis Lewis’s childhood nickname was “Preacher” because he was called to the ministry at an early age, though social justice would become his life calling. You can hear the preacher in the sermon-like line […]
