Entries from May 2008

6 May, 2008

The Way/My Way

The greening of the leaf. It comes late at 1000 feet. No cherry blossom just yet. A day of sun will bring it on. This is the cherry blossom of 2 or 3 years ago.

“First there is a mountain. Then there is no mountain. Then there is.” A poetic precis of enlightenment. A ‘phone conversation [...]

4 May, 2008

May the 4th be with you

Today: After the early morning thunderstorm; painting a white door whiter. And a pale wall paler.

3 May, 2008

Astrid Kircherr’s scissors

To be at Art school, play in a band, wear shades a lot, have a foreign girl-friend, to have a studio in a foreign city. The primary desires of many young white males who aspire, and have aspired to, a counter culture that has become mainstream.
To be male in 1961 in England, you were either [...]

1 May, 2008

This wind, and all these leaves.

The stone head was found on a beach in Wales. It either knows everything or knows nothing. The antithesis of the compacted density of all those millions of years of everything or nothing is something like the wind through leaves. Leaves and words and wind and time. Always time: the long now and the precious [...]