Tag: ojai
First of the Season
There’s so much greenery this year that the seedlings often can’t complete, but they’re made for this land. They’ll keep coming back.
Spells
“The earth’s deepest and most primal incantation.”
A Blaze of Kindness
“We learn by imitation: it’s easy to say these things, but to see them in action, in much harder circumstances than we will ever face, is a far greater help. And to see them exemplified by real, flawed, complicated people like us is better still; they are not fairly-tale ideals, they are achievable. Real people achieved them.”
“If you don’t believe in god, say ocean.”
“Part of the reality of searching for queer respites is that they are fleeting, ever-evolving, a question without a resolved answer.”
A View (3)
Every divot in the trail is a spring.
Unselfing/Reselfing
…a whole realm of people who could look at every passing thought and doodle and hard-won victory and low moment and interview and blog post and reflect back someone cohesive and true.
Gigawatts
These days when I see exhortations to conserve power or water or any other communal resource, I’m alarmed by how cynical I’ve become.
…After These Messages
Who is the self who’s emerging from this season of my life?
Events of the Week
Even if he’s fine, we’re left carrying the weight of how it could’ve gone.