“Snow was general all over Ireland…” The last paragraph of Joyce’s The Dead

Yes, the newspapers were…

True love is the union of parallel paths

Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of…

When the gay boy got a girl pregnant

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“My heart with pleasure fills…”

Pond in summer, taken with iPhone4, retouched with photogene

Meditation, mindfulness and the mystery of the human spirit

The Goldsworthy stone wall at Storm King

At Storm King, the unparalleled sculpture garden in New York’s Hudson Valley, an…

An example of the elegance of clear and simple speech in poetry

When I write a poem I try to keep the words as simple and true as I can manage. The temptation to show-off with language is always there, and the temptation to force meaning will make me pause and doubt the words. I know…

Big ideas, my personal zeitgeist and the erosive power of Ego