The plum and peach and nectarine trees are full of buds right now, each one delicately fuzzy – here and there I see a fragile, papery, pinkish-white blossom, but mostly the trees are full only of yearning

touching the Earth ::savoring each sliceof the tangerine (with a 🙏to Thich Nhat Hanh) (photo by Michael Dorausch michaeldorausch.com)

office plant even the pebbles are plastic

Notes from the end of Gil Fronsdal’s class on concentration . . . #meditation #samadhi #bell #metaphor #notes #insight #gilfronsdal https://www.instagram.com/p/BtphXn9HPkr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14jmsv0b9s6le

winter morning :: the cat asks if he can become my neck warmer #haiku #micropoetry https://www.instagram.com/p/BtpJdQDHWQp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1apvyh612hnf3

hamotzi: another comic for class! we were given a list of paintings and told to pick one to use in a story. i used 6 paintings here, and these are all the artists in order of their works’ appearances: Telemaco Signorini, Piagentina; Winslow Homer, A Shady Spot; James Bingham; James Bingham; Walter L

Think I finally found a baker’s mark I like https://www.instagram.com/p/BsvbmqJHavs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tn8zpwa74qmh

Edward Gorey: amazingly cool. This is what I’m aiming for in the second half of my life. Robert Gottlieb’s review of the new Gorey bio by Mark Dery is a rare example of a very negative book review that I actually enjoyed. Because Gottlieb knows a lot about Gorey he is able to provide a […]

Things get a little weird inside the Cloud Gate (at Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_6YGLAi48/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=158nssdravbsj

young man with the head of Walt Whitman (at The University of Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_OY1dA6Nn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nylot0gutlrk

I haunt my hometown, walking past familiar buildings as well as unfamiliar vacant lots where my elementary school and junior high school once stood

Merry Christmas from Bowling Green, Ohio (sculpture by Dominic Labino, 1976) #art #sculpture #glass https://www.instagram.com/p/Br1GrGZAoxk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cydql6uoy21q