“The truth about strong emotion is that it's difficult to sustain. Despite how victimized we feel, it's hard work hanging on to anger, even when it's tinged with righteousness. Holding a grudge against someone is (sometimes) more trouble than it's worth.” - Kinsey Millhone in R Is For Ricochet by Sue Grafton (1940-2017), p. 231
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15 March 2024
Night Burgers - Missoula, Montana
09 March 2024
Reflecting On River and Life - Maclay Flats, Bitterroot River, Missoula, Montana
“Rivers are magnets for the imagination, for conscious pondering and subconscious dreams, thrills, fears. People stare into the moving water, captivated, as they are when gazing into a fire. What is it that draws and holds us? The rivers' reflections of our lives and experiences are endless. “ - Tim Palmer, in Lifelines
17 February 2024
Frosted Glory - East Missoula, Montana
"…the really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does … a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin (1819–1900), in Modern Painters, Vol. III 1856
08 February 2024
Sun-kiss Burns Off the Fog - East Missoula, Montana
24 January 2024
Frosted Walk (and Then More Reading) - Missoula, Montana
“During those long afternoon walks in nature he came to believe that one must shut the mouth and open the eyes and ears, for nature only asked of him to look, listen, and attend.
After the walks: more reading.”
-Young C.S. “Jack” Lewis, in Once Upon. A Wardrobe, by Patti Callahan, LT p. 166
23 January 2024
Winter Sun and Frost - East Missoula, Montana
“…"You don't have to
prove anything," my mother said. "Just be ready
for what God sends." I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again. It was all easy…..”
- William Stafford (1914-1993) from his last poem "Are You Mr. William Stafford?"
(Thanks to Maria Popova/the marginalian for her ponder of this bright light.)
22 January 2024
Winter Leaf Frost and Amazement - Missoula, Montana
I was a bride married to amazement. …” - Mary Oliver (1935-2019) from her poem When Death Comes