Thoreau's Wine

We work with the substantial but it is the emptiness we use

2012-01-21T10:51:00.001-08:00

Drifting

2012-01-20T13:36:00.000-08:00

Last summer's burdock

2012-01-20T13:30:00.001-08:00

Bhagavad Gita 11.53

2012-01-18T08:38:00.001-08:00

The common life is an endless succession of phantasms

2012-01-16T12:12:00.001-08:00

What a benefit if a rule could be given whereby the mind draining amidst the gross fogs of matter, could at any moment east itself and find the Sun. But the common life is an endless succession of phantasms. And long after we have deemed ourselves recovered & sound, light breaks in upon us & we find we have yet had no sane hour. Another morn rises on mid-noon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:274

I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are the most spiritual...

2011-12-31T12:55:00.001-08:00

Walt Whitman

Of physiology from top to toe I sing...

2011-12-30T07:51:00.001-08:00

Walt Whitman

There is creative reading as well as creative writing

2011-12-29T08:25:00.001-08:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A moment is concentrated eternity

2011-12-28T07:46:00.001-08:00

The study of one man, of one object radically, is like the study of one book in a foreign language

2011-12-22T07:16:00.001-08:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is a poem, the shipbuilder a ship

2011-12-07T07:38:00.001-08:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing of the true democratic element in what is called Democracy

2011-12-04T08:32:00.001-08:00

"Images are life"

2011-11-29T08:48:00.001-08:00

Seacoast colors...

2011-11-28T08:27:00.000-08:00

Late November in Sequim, WA

2011-11-28T08:22:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving morning...

2011-11-24T08:48:00.001-08:00

I went to Walden Pond this evening...

2011-11-23T07:51:00.001-08:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson- Journals

2011-11-21T11:01:00.001-08:00

Appalachian Dawn...

2011-11-19T05:48:00.000-08:00

Haiku- Sanchiroku

2011-11-14T09:24:00.001-08:00

They taste good to her...

2011-11-10T13:00:00.001-08:00

To a Poor Old Woman
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand

They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her

You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand

Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her

Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their labor are misers!

2011-11-06T09:01:00.001-08:00

Fight for the sake of fighting...

2011-11-05T10:04:00.001-07:00

2011-11-04T11:42:00.001-07:00

The landscape from Fair Haven Hill looks Novembery...

2011-11-03T08:58:00.001-07:00

HDT 11/3/1852

The Tao

2011-10-29T08:33:00.001-07:00

The apple emulates man's independence and enterprise

2011-10-28T09:06:00.001-07:00

HDT 10/28/1857

My how they've flown!

2011-10-27T09:34:00.000-07:00

The noblest of fruits is the apple.

2011-10-27T09:22:00.001-07:00

HDT 10/27/1851

7:00 AM- Dawn over the water

2011-10-26T08:40:00.001-07:00

2011-10-25T08:38:00.000-07:00

Edible nasturtiums still blooming in the herb garden

Simplicity- Emily Dickinson

2011-10-21T11:18:00.001-07:00

Who knows how near to absolute truth such unconscious affirmations may come

2011-10-13T08:39:00.001-07:00

HDT 10/13/1860

Geese in the marina at sunrise

2011-10-13T07:59:00.001-07:00

Fall produce

2011-10-10T20:49:00.001-07:00

2011-10-10T12:09:00.001-07:00

Certainly these are the most brilliant days in the year...

2011-10-10T09:27:00.001-07:00

HDT 10/10/1857

Does it not suggest a thousand gypsies...

2011-10-07T09:28:00.001-07:00

HDT 10/7/1857

A foggy autumn morning...

2011-10-04T08:21:00.001-07:00

The white pines are getting to be pretty generally parti-colored...

2011-10-03T09:23:00.001-07:00

HDT 10/3/1856

Rescued from the cat!

2011-10-01T09:05:00.001-07:00

According to the Upanishads...

2011-09-30T09:03:00.000-07:00

HDT 9/30/1857

But what astronomer can calculate the orbit of my thistle-down?

2011-09-29T09:05:00.001-07:00

HDT 9/29/1858

Late September colors...

2011-09-29T08:43:00.001-07:00

This morning we had a very severe frost...

2011-09-28T09:39:00.001-07:00

HDT 9/28/1860

There are still many fresh flowers at the farmer's market...

2011-09-25T10:42:00.001-07:00

The painting shed...

2011-09-22T20:25:00.000-07:00

We cannot afford to miss seeing the beaded grass and wetting our feet.

2011-09-20T21:17:00.000-07:00

HDT 9/20/1857

Medicinal herbs almost ready for harvest...

2011-09-20T08:16:00.000-07:00

A sure sign of fall...

2011-09-14T11:14:00.001-07:00

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

2011-09-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

HDT 9/2/1851

A mountain trail...

2011-08-21T09:53:00.001-07:00

Don't cry my dear, be strong...

2011-08-19T14:45:00.000-07:00

The poet must be continually watching the moods of his mind.

2011-08-19T11:54:00.001-07:00

HDT 8/19/1851

Afternoon fog

2011-08-13T18:21:00.001-07:00

It has a peculiarly late sound, suggestive of the progress of the year.

2011-08-12T09:32:00.001-07:00

HDT 8/12/1858

The doe

2011-08-08T07:57:00.000-07:00

Pete's woodshed

2011-08-07T09:15:00.000-07:00

It is like a cup of cold water to a thirsty man.

2011-08-05T08:28:00.001-07:00

HDT 8/5/1851

...I am drunk with the season's wine

2011-08-04T07:29:00.001-07:00

HDT 8/4/1851

Kuan Yin

2011-08-03T18:54:00.000-07:00

A beautiful Luna Moth...

2011-08-01T14:55:00.001-07:00

In every object...a mystic cipher waits-

2011-08-01T09:10:00.001-07:00

Port Angeles Harbor

2011-07-30T14:05:00.000-07:00

I find it impossible to present my view to most people...

2011-07-29T07:34:00.001-07:00

HDT 7/29/1857

Beachcombing

2011-07-28T21:53:00.001-07:00

Wild Huckelberries

2011-07-28T16:42:00.000-07:00

It was the distance was savory.

2011-07-28T11:36:00.001-07:00

2011-07-27T21:24:00.001-07:00

Drank up the last of my birch wine...

2011-07-26T08:16:00.001-07:00

HDT 7/26/1856

At 8:30 PM the July sun fills the main salon...

2011-07-22T09:40:00.000-07:00

2011-07-21T08:56:00.001-07:00

This has been a particularly fine afternoon.

2011-07-21T07:49:00.000-07:00

HDT 7/21/1856

New apples showing summer colors at the garden gate

2011-07-20T11:48:00.001-07:00

...It is even made to observe the Christian Sabbath-

2011-07-20T07:59:00.001-07:00

HDT 7/20/1859

Raspberry blossoms

2011-07-19T08:22:00.001-07:00

I thought often and seriously of picking huckleberries; that surely I could do-

2011-07-19T08:20:00.000-07:00

HDT 7/19/1851

Native canoe underway off Ediz Hook

2011-07-18T09:08:00.000-07:00

Port Angeles, WA

Have you knowledge of the morning?

2011-07-18T07:38:00.001-07:00

HDT 7/18/1851

"I wondered if a mortal had ever known what I know"

2011-07-16T09:29:00.001-07:00

HDT 7/16/1851

2011-07-14T10:07:00.001-07:00

HDT 7/14/1852

THE GOAL.

2011-07-14T10:03:00.001-07:00

Emily Dickinson

THE GOAL.

Each life converges to some centre
Expressed or still;
Exists in every human nature
A goal,

Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be,
Too fair
For credibility's temerity
To dare.

Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven,
To reach
Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment
To touch,

Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance;
How high
Unto the saints' slow diligence
The sky!

Ungained, it may be, by a life's low venture,
But then,
Eternity enables the endeavoring
Again.

July wild flowers - Olympic National Park

2011-07-10T17:29:00.001-07:00

Tomato blossom

2011-07-01T18:38:00.001-07:00

Tomato blossom mandala

2011-07-01T18:37:00.001-07:00

A chive blossom

2011-07-01T18:36:00.001-07:00

Chive blossom mandala

2011-07-01T09:00:00.000-07:00

I am on my way to the river behind Hubbard's to bathe.

2011-06-30T07:56:00.001-07:00

HTD 6/30/1851

Lake Crescent- Olympic National Park

2011-06-28T08:28:00.001-07:00

Native totem- BC Canada

2011-06-22T13:40:00.001-07:00

After a hard day's work...

2011-06-22T08:46:00.001-07:00

HDT 6/22/1851

The perception of beauty is a moral test

2011-06-21T08:35:00.001-07:00

HDT 6/21/1852

Wild onions dug at snow-line in the Olympic Mountains

2011-06-12T08:14:00.000-07:00

Clear and unprejudiced ears hear the sweetest and most soul-stirring melody.

2011-06-09T07:56:00.001-07:00

HDT 6/9/1852

Sunrise through the grass...5:30 AM

2011-06-06T14:59:00.000-07:00

Immature Salmon Berry- Peabody Creek

2011-06-02T09:43:00.001-07:00

Lilacs last on the bookshelf bloomed...

2011-06-02T09:41:00.000-07:00

So men should crow in the morning.

2011-06-02T09:38:00.001-07:00

HDT 6/2/1853

Walt Whitman- leaves Of Grass

2011-06-02T09:34:00.000-07:00

TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS

To get the final lilt of songs,
To penetrate the inmost lore of poets--to know the mighty ones,
Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakespere, Tennyson, Emerson;
To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt--
to truly understand,
To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.

...how near all men come to doing nothing!

2011-05-29T11:22:00.001-07:00

HDT 5/28/1857