notes from baja – looking for the coast
A felicitous mistake, we take the turn off Route 1 to Santa Fe, thinking maybe we’ll be able to reach the coast and head south from there. Our maps are bad for this kind...
notes from baja – east cape
March 13 – March 20, 2008 Baja California Sur • Santiago, on the Tropic of Cancer. Palomar restaurant, Canadian couple from the Okanogan. Man was very negative about Canada’s “communism,” inflaming Sam. They were...
when the poet must choose
Comes a time when the poet must choose: either to step deep in the stream of his people, history, tradition, folding and folding himself in wealth of persons and pasts; philosophy, humanity, to become...
rainy morning
waking early bed thoughts— death will come to loved ones waking later bed thoughts— measuring water, measuring rice
competition
Key to evolution adaptability: the organism alters itself rather than continue fruitless competition. (p. 35) And now there are too many human beings. Let’s be animals or buddhas instead. (p. 36) from Earth House...