January 31st, 20221/31/2022  We're having a cold winter (for us, anyway): freeze warnings and deep freeze warnings and afternoons in the high 40s or low 50s. Makes me wish I could get on a cruise and ship and drift away to the Caribbean—although that part of the world all seems somehow so plastic, unreal to me.
January 27th, 20221/27/2022  Brian McLaren: "(E)ven in our cities we need connections with our original neighbors, whether they're verdant green, magnet and mauve, or flame orange . . . that [is] the real quest . . . the infinite quest for connection with everything, everyone, everywhere, always—the quest to let down my barriers, let go of my agendas and expectations, and simply be open to who and what may come, now and next.
January 17th, 20221/17/2022  Boyd Hill Nature Preserve Picasso: "Art is a lie that makes us realized truth."
January 13th, 20221/13/2022  John Muir: "The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
January 03rd, 20221/3/2022  Barry Lopez: We need another way of knowing.
Soetsu Yangi on Japanese understanding of beauty: Why should pattern be so beautifu? . . . Pattern may be compared to a spring of water that can be drawn on eternally. To provide a source of imagination that never dries up—that, for me, is true beauty. A beautiful pattern is always receptive to the spirit of the viewer. One never tires of looking at it. [And writing about shibui—a concept of beauty]--shibui. . .is not a beauty displayed before the viewer by the creator; creation here means, rather making a piece that will lead the viewer to draw beauty out of it for himself. January 01st, 20221/1/2022  Fog this morning: a not inappropriate metaphoric prediction of the year ahead. Politics, COVID and weather will make 2022 a year of uncertainty about a way forward. Still, here at the beginning, it's possible to hope that this year will be better than last.
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