In the dark

In the dark You forget about silence You forget about the deep-silence that happens when all human made things go quiet, and there is no sound, engine made. And when the power went out, as I was working I could hear it draining, all the equipment, shutting down,...

A Love of Wild Trees (8/9)

Contemplating the tree of my dreams… And this is the eighth in a series from https://tim.girvin.com/Entries/index.php. There’s one tree that figures repeatedly in my imagination. It’s the tree in front of my house on Decatur Island, which is located...

A Love of Patterning | The Knot

Second in the series: Part One Rickjpelleg, first uploaded to en.wikipedia on 20:13, 28 October 2005, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Isn’t it so, that there’s a symbol that continuously finds itself representing, to you? The Grand Mosque, Casablanca,...

You Just Never Know

You just never know. Meditations on exploration and the beauty of being lost, and finding again. As much as you think — “it will go this way” — it just might not. And that way that it does go, it seems, just might be the way that it is meant to...

the last picture I took…

…was of this magician and healer, likely Tuareg, and surely from the Sahara. I took this picture, then tried to get closer to another healer | storyteller type, and the camera was knocked down to the brickwork in an ancient courtyard or jemaa — in the...

Thanks, giving

Happy Thanksgiving! Sometime back, in October, there was a group of wild turkeys, that came to visit me. And while they are normally very reticent about being close to people, these were friendly. I called to them, they came, and stayed for some bread. They gathered...