photo by contemplify “The day before [Roger Ebert] passed away, he wrote me a note: “This is all an elaborate hoax.” I asked him, “What’s a hoax?” And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn’t visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can’t even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once.― Chaz Ebert (Roger’s Wife) Subtle Sacraments Loved ones are …
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Poetic Nature of Walking with Jonathon Stalls
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.” – Henry David Thoreau Poetic Nature of Walking with Jonathon Stalls Jonathon Stalls spent 242 days walking across the United States in 2010 and has continued to walk alongside thousands of people for thousands of miles. He is an artist, social entrepreneur, advocate for social, economic and racial justice, LGBTQIA+, Creator of Intrinsic Paths, and Founder of Walk2Connect. Jonathon recently finished his studies at the Living …
Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight
Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight A plucked musical movement, hairpin poetic turns, mythical stories in rough harmonics. Baptize me into this Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight. No time like a pandemic to establish a new society. Perhaps by the end of this, you’ll join the membership. Recently, I uncovered a faded list of songs I had written years ago. Songs that I want played at my wake. Songs that speak to my body while I breathe and my hope that they’ll speak to my dearest after I’ve exhaled my last breath. I can picture beers cracked …