I've been working in Jakarta and took a running vacation out to Bali -- here, with my lover, adventuress, that she is. Bird spiders in the lowland, clear dawning, in the volcanic highlands. More bugs, wandering -- along with me...

the night, as I slept, was long: wind driven, rain washed, sea crashing, on the rocks -- a lengthy whispering that took me to the place of the deep dream, the deep dive -- still, a vision -- from me, contemplating you... being here now, it's goodness, in the quietude, still alone, recalling, to your warming expressions and gentle smile. Feeling blessed, in all: with what I know, share, experience and drift to -- in my wandering...with you. The art of love, of loving all, of you, that there is...

I was hiking up in the hills above Borobadur, and there were little villages, rice fields and households - impoverished, but beautiful and friendly people. Hardworking would be an extraordinary understating... Out there, in the primitive hardscrabble wilds of these people and their ways, I found a t. A T stone. It was crumblings from some lonesome masonry mill, but where, who knows. Consumed by the verging jungle. ---- And what better symbolic hortatory than the proclamation of the T?...

coax \KOAKS\ verb 1 : to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering 2 : to draw, gain, or persuade by means of gentle urging *3 : to manipulate with great perseverance and usually with considerable effort toward a desired state or activityin finding the balance point: Example sentence: Each stone has its balance point, but finding the centering for each, in creating the cairn,? takes a measure of coaxing; and the arrogance of the foolishly inclined; for in the end, it all falls down.?...

I get around perambulate \puh-RAM-byuh-layt\, intransitive verb: 1. To walk about; to roam; to stroll; as, "he perambulated in the park." transitive verb: 1. To walk through or over. 2. To travel over for the purpose of surveying or inspecting. _________________________________________________________ Perambulate comes from Latin per-, "through" + ambulare, "to walk." The noun form is perambulation.How about Victoria's Secret, as a new client, speaking of movements...? Have a great day, beauty...

I'm looking for the real thing; but then again, what's to say that the real thing isn't merely a "shade" of some other, perhaps more wonderful... similarity. simulacrum \sim-yuh-LAY-kruhm; -LAK-ruhm\, noun; plural simulacra \sim-yuh-LAY-kruh; -LAK-ruh\: 1. An image; a representation. 2. An insubstantial, superficial, or vague likeness or semblance. It becomes harder... to distinguish the genuine from its simulacrum. -- Wayne Curtis, "The Tiki Wars," [2]The Atlantic, February 2001 Simulacrum is...

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...

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,...