A beautiful ballad called ‘Remembering’ in an expressionist musical style by Avishai Cohen and his Trio, suffuses my home while I write this, as if to underline that I reminisce a lot and today I remember Rilke. “Poems are not . . . simply emotions . . . they are experiences”, said Rainer Maria Rilke,…
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What a tidal salt marsh can teach about interdependence, resilience and healing
The marshes have their own unique way of commiserating with the human condition. Along half a mile of floating boardwalk through a marsh in Saw Mill Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack river, I encounter parallels to my own life. The Kingsland marsh discovery trail on an impoundment in the Richard DeKorte Park, southern part…
The order of the spiral
Equiangularity in nature ~ Rethinking a philosophy in life Time has certainly moved on from a place of incipient chaos and uncertainty to one of order and hope, although this wouldn’t appear to be the case with current events seemingly spiraling out of control. This schema of perception itself serves nothing except to create…
Behind a mask, amid Whitman’s leaves of grass in the Van Vleck gardens at Montclair, NJ
Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait] – From BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS, LEAVES OF GRASS By Walt Whitman (Source: Project Gutenberg) 1 Out from behind this bending rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the whole, This common curtain of the face contain’d in me for me, in you for…
A solitary walk, the Crazy Horse of Mathias Duplessy and a shot of optimism
A solitary walk … It appears today, that the only thing certain is the uncertainty of the following day. But even so, in this time of a huge void in our social interactions, the accompanying ennui, anxiety and various other psychosomatic effects that seem to have surfaced, it got me thinking about hope and…
