interlude: al-khidr
In his 1993 book Sacred Drift, Essays on the Margins of Islam, Peter Wilson writes “When you say the name of Khezr in company you should always add the greeting Salaam aliekum! since he...
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cerulena celebrates
Still happy about the shoe art – optimistic about the weekend – optimistic about the future – long patient efforts may pay off – and to celebrate I bought The Mooring of Starting OUT!...
small commitment
5_trope links I’ll use these links as a hand-over-hand guide to climb out of the blind closet I’m in.
linh dinh
“Slang are crowding out real words, he foolishly thinks, forgetting that every word belongs to the shadowy vocabulary of an illicit crowd, invented to reassure and flatter its speaker, and confuse outsiders to what...
owls (stuttering)
Owls often make it difficult to speak Cree with them. They can cause stuttering, and when stuttering is going on they are attracted to it. It is said that stuttering is laughable to owls....
intent
Prior to all our verbal reflections, at the level of our spontaneous, sensorial engagement with the world around us, we are all animists. (57) imagination is from the first an attribute of the senses...
forgiveness
Long slow time on the lake striking the tent and the tarp washing all the dishes in lake water hanging the prayer flags to dry laid to dry on the warm gravel beach swimming...