We win Canyon Ranch Living in Miami; while the winning is grand, the vibe of Miami is curious. It's moneyed, but cultural -- to the arts -- vacant. The sensing is all about the transport of snowbird capital, from the north, to the south, from the far south, back to Miami. So it's a wonderful admixture, ethnographically speaking, but the polish of the environments belie what lies beneath the skin.  Then, looking out, looking in, I ponder the storms that are emerging. Then, looking out,...

After long, stormwashed and cast along, the Wanderer stone was found, buried under tons of washed pilings and logs, hidden, the gyrovague -- a stony meandering. Never lost, merely unseen... gyrovague (JYE-ro-vayg) noun A monk who travels from one place to another. [From French, from Late Latin gyrovagus gyro- (circle) + vagus (wandering).] "Other forms of religious life on Mount Athos fall outside these two major categories and include anchorites, hermits who live alone in secluded cells or in...

A long day, but... Paying attention, working at intention, avoiding contention, hardly detention... Photo by Tim Girvin

Hello and good morning... I find this, seeing this, an odd mnemonic to the day -- of Presidents, no less. I suppose that we associate eagles with the presidency, do we not? Not sure, entirely, what we are celebrating there...but it's today. To eagles, however...and seeing this one, yesterday: To the spirit of what is there, what is seen, what is experienced -- and in this word -- hallowed, somehow there's something to the truth of it. An ancient word, below -- recalled in a different manner,...

Storm come, wanderer ring gone. Stone found. Wanderer returns.

I connect with Bloomingdale's: Christmas 2006 design. Photo by Tim Girvin

obliterate \uh-BLIT-uh-rayt\ verb 1 a : to remove utterly from recognition or memory *b : to remove from existence : destroy utterly all trace, indication, or significance of c : to cause to disappear (as a bodily part or a scar) or collapse (as a duct conveying body fluid) 2 : to make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or wearing away 3 : to deface (a postage or revenue stamp) especially with a set of ink lines so as to invalidate for reuse : cancelKnow? Far from being removed from...

I begin working with Yves Saint Laurent. Photos by Tim Girvin

My office in the city is across from Madison Park. Winterbound, trees are bare and as the chill moves in formally, the skyscrapers are caught in mist. Photo by Tim Girvin It reminds me of the illuminations of Raymond Hood, the 30s, his drawings of skyscrapers of enormous height, struck by spotlights from below. The mist rolls into the city, and the towers drift into nothingness, steam flowing off like lit clouds. Love that.

Morning has come. I sit, in meditation this morning Outside, cool winds running And I look off, to the distant Range of waters, that Shimmer in the moonlight Coming down, through The clouds, that move Like shadows. As I silence, my self, The waters continue Their whispering. And they are saying Stay clear, in the ripple Of the day, in time. In time with them, I'm thinking, like my Heart, beating slow Like the rhythm of The waves, churning In their gestured grasp Of the shoreline That is rocky...