For bits that are a few sentences in length
Thought as travel over a landscape
Traversing a landscape on foot or in a car… well-worn paths, convenient paths, scenic paths.
… Analogy to thoughts, and how it can be easy to retrace one’s steps…
… Creative thinking as taking different paths
… who has been this way before… have they left notes or signs?
… thoughts moving swiftly or slowly like streams… thoughts that are like wary animals
driving, flow default networks
Sauntering (thoreau; muir; St <someone>)
Fallen Leaves
Trees that hold on to their leaves after they are dead (marcescent)….
Curled brown leaves on the forest floor whose ribs arch like the beams(???) of cathedrals
birds scavenging seeds from bushes
Husks of brown leaves float on the water amid the reflections of buds
In the spring the brown remnants of leaves shatter to dust,
Pressed into the mud, the brown leaves are flattened and look like proto-fossils
Winter
Ice ridges catching like
the fabrics of crystals… heat of fusion
catastrophic failure of ice shelf
Water in Baja
The water trickles out of the fountain, tumbling over stone in beads and blobs, slow enough that you hear the sound of each fat tear of water.
Last Year’s Leaves in the Spring
The marcescent trees, mostly oaks, have released their hoards of last-year’s leaf-husks. Some, blown onto the remnants of vernal pools, are pressed into the spring mud, a palimpsest ready for spring. Elsewhere, the leaves turn to fragments and dust.
Blasphemy
Blasphemy. That’s what it struck me as. Which is odd, because I am not religious. I am not even a theist. But, whatever the term, it struck me as disturbingly and deeply wrong.
And it’s not something that most people would glance twice at.
Refugia
One is a somewhat upscale restaurant in a western suburb of Phoenix called Vogue. One is the Hilton hotel in the Mexico City airport – unusually, for a hotel, it is within the security cordon. Another is a generic chain restaurant in downtown Chicago: it might be called California Kitchen. One is the Westin hotel in DTW – that’s the Detroit metropolitan airport, for all you non-frequent fliers.
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