Wild-looking grass
One of the landscape changes of recent years is the steady return of wild-looking grass where previously there were endless,...
As insensible as …
Of course, we can't know (yet) how insensible a fungus is, but until we learn otherwise, what a memorable way...
Contorted as …
Never thought of caterpillars as contorted, but I like the simile. Hope you do too, and the image I used....
Not long to wait, then
At last, we learn that an explanation is on the way. Â And the day after never isn't far off, now,...
Death and funerals
Thoreau's tricky relationship with the Church is neatly and humorously summed up here.
'If it were not for death and...
Of facts and poetry
Having also tried various neat distinctions which inevitably crumble in the face of precise examples that don't fit, I liked...
The liberating influence of a river
I like the idea of a river's motion and indefinite length as being liberating. But I'm pondering corresponding aspects of...
That grand old poem called Winter
To celebrate the winter solstice, a few crisp quotations. I loved Thoreau's description of winter as an epic in blank...
Ebbs and flows of the soul
A journal as a beach gathering shells, seaweed and pearls washed up by the soul in the course of a...
Like the lowing of a cow
Nature's hoarse summer voice? Â Wind shuffling leaves and crickets rubbing hands together? Â I like the metaphor, but nevertheless can't quite...
Wrong by a jugful
A charming way to say that someone is seriously wrong - not right by a jugful. I will try to...
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