the least of these...

"But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind…"         Luke 14:13

living in oz...

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

zen...

Say one word with your mouth shut.                                       Zen Saying

I have this thing about hanging pictures and properly placing things about.  Can't deal with the high in the sky method or the I didn't give it much thought technique. I'm not above asking for help and paying for it. I know when I'm out of my league. I did get a helper to assist in hanging my pictures in the condo on Folly and was happy to sigh in relief when it was done. 

Except:

I changed my mind!  Yes, I moved a piece and could not get it level.  I moved it a quarter inch this way.  I moved it a tad that way. I moved it up. I moved it down. The nail holes multiplied. They looked like a little village of pinpricks. It was always askew--a minute bit catawampus. Almost imperceptible, but it was there. I could see it from my chair.

Until:

One night I bumbled down the stairs in the dark, walked to the counter and horrors...I knocked it off the wall.  In exasperation, I picked it up from the floor and rehung the picture in the dark.  Actually, I just threw it on the wall.  And out of nowhere...

Magic:

It's perfectly level now...perfectly hung in the dark.

Because:

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.               -Teilhard de Chardin

sea shanty...

Sea Rations

Back yard

Morris Island Lighthouse on Folly's East End

A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire.

Toes in search of shoes

Adrift

Bank above the boneyard on the east end

I love the fog

unfold...

Do Not Be Ashamed

"Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.  They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them.  And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you..."
                                                                                                       - Wendell Berry

From Journal (October 25, 1998) 

yom tov...

"The thing man seeks is seeking him..."  Florence Scovel Shinn

walk on water...

    Poster Credit:  Karen Salmansohn