The inuksuit born of the weight in our hands as stone after stone they choose to stand their lives take form in the foundry of the heart they rise and arise on the bank of the fjord to wait in the wind for the one who returns they speak without speaking but when? but when? lighthouse …
If there is a lesson in travel — and I make the gentle distinction here between Travel, where you open yourself to change, and Tourism, where the scenes and faces pass in front of you in cinematic splendor — if there is a lesson in travel, it is that time is much longer than your …
“The curve of the river is where the breeze comes freshest. You can hear the leaves find voice before each gust arrives, like an invisible wave reaching upstream, downstream. On this bank is the small shore, because the arm of water hooks around us here, an embrace. The far bank is the long shore: from here …
uma palavra balançou na ponta da língua falada, calada, falada, calada batuque rítmo de coração será que este por do sol seja à medida do seu nascer? o menino enraizado só (arvore-gurí, criança-flor) se sente o peso diferente nas almas dos seus pés; de cima, entretanto sol é sol até o día em que sangue …
When you travel to a tourist destination, you see what you pay for, and what those who are selling rest wish you to see: in the case of Gulf coast Florida, there are miles of sand, comfortable and maintenance-free accommodations, food at the end of a short walk and at the sliding edge of your …
It doesn't matter the palette, where colors live, the brush can explore; where the brush explores, the canvas blooms; where paint dries, the globe is tasted, interpreted, and offered to whomever would receive it. So, tonight we are in the southern States, in easy reach of some of the tastier kitchen paints. Tonight's menu: Caribbean …
The bigger the world, the more human in size we find ourselves, intimate part of a Mystery so grand you cannot help but bow…
… and it is not as though there weren’t months and years ahead. The difficult events of our lives are like stones dropped into a bed-sheet, the whole of its white expanse falls, by weight and momentum, and gathers together into a knot of cloth. That night cloth is gathered together in our clenched fist, …
The tamed range is filled with Cawdor wood, and every glance outside is a reminder of my failure as a suburban land steward.
In 1985, I spent several months living on the island of Java, in Yogyakarta, having traveled there with a partner in the evening of our intimacy. I sat out nights with our mutual friend Muller, a Sumatran who was studying at the University, on the grass mats of Jalan Malioboro, smoking Kretek cigarettes and drinking …
tech • nol • o • gy | tek'näl?j? | noun (pl. -gies) ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Greek tekhnologia 'systematic treatment,' from tekhn? 'art, craft' + -logia 'knowledge', originally in reference to grammar. In the mid-1800s applied to industry and industrial works. Finally, circa 1964, 'High Technology' was coined for the overtures of the …
The moon poured its smiling face silver over the yard, and you moved your hand an inch, then another inch, then held my cool fingers in yours that were so warm.