Friends, we are having some difficulty at home. Actually, to be more accurate, the trouble has been going on for a while, but we’ve been doing our best to correct it. My cat Apollo has been pretty brutally attacking my other cat Anna. For those of you who know Anna, you know she’s a sweetheart. [...]
Autumn after 5
After five years, she’s still. . . Leave a comment on my photoblog.
You Can’t Go Home Again
I have finished re-reading, again, what is arguably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best short story, “Babylon Revisited.” It merges the past with the present as Charlie Wales returns to Paris to try and recapture his life literally by taking custody of his daughter Honoria, and figuratively by exploring the Paris of his prodigal past that still lives in his memory if not in reality.
I Don’t Feel at Home Where I Am
I don’t feel at home where I am,or where I spend time; only where,beyond counting, there’s freedom and calm,that is, waves, that is, space where, when there,you consist of pure freedom, which, seen,turns that Gorgon, the crowd, to stone,to pebbles and sand … where life’s mean-ing lies buried, that never let onecome within cannon shot [...]