by Tim Girvin | Apr 20, 2007 | Diary
Home, the metaphor and global warming. What message, found? Walking around meditations of world-warming, place, home. And where the heart is, shall be… I can relate to this. And I can pretty much relate to everything that Mary Oliver offers. I’ve...
by Tim Girvin | Apr 15, 2007 | Diary
For about a month, actually, maybe a half year, I’d sorted aside a collection of cups that piled up in a pyramidal arrangement at my house. I’ve got one house, and it’s not in Seattle, it’s in the San Juans. And that’s where I live,...
by Tim Girvin | Apr 10, 2007 | Diary
For maybe some 25 years I’ve been collecting zenga. These are the paintings of Zen masters. They are of the haboku style, which is the most captivating, to my aesthetic, which is called “broken ink”. It’s about saying something in nothing....
by Tim Girvin | Apr 9, 2007 | Diary
There’s something simple to the concept of the balanced stone, what can be, what can line up, what balance there might be. I’ve found this one thing. That the more you balance, the more you sense the balance. That is — balance more, and more is...
by Tim Girvin | Apr 9, 2007 | Diary
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT {Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.} Carl Gustav Jung And what god is t(here)? The god of mist, of rain, of the ancient tree, the corvid call — and what can be found in all; and what can be found in nothing. And...
by Tim Girvin | Apr 9, 2007 | Diary
3.25.06 Cairn of lavastone | Mt. Merapi | Java obviate \OB-vee-ayt\, transitive verb: To prevent by interception; to anticipate and dispose of or make unnecessary. Obviate derives from Latin obviare, “to meet or encounter,” from ob viam, “placed or...
