Just finished (in one sitting) Mary Oliver’s Blue Horses. Such talent. I expect I’ll read this book many times over in the years to come. I hope you do to. Us folded orgami, fortunate to have thoughts and feelings of our own

Hard Disagree # I’m tired of the people On the internet Who “hard disagree” yet give nothing to the world of thoughts or participate in the fun of exploration Like trekking fast up a mountain To abandon the curmudgeons of your group Only to be caught By the sentient crumbs From the packs ahead

Excerpt from Aristotle by Billy Collins # “This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore.”

Somehow I’ve never written “Man vs. Nature” in the margins. B. Collins urges me to do so now, but I don’t see it. Man is also nature, and hmm… that’s the right way to bookend that vs.