The first is from e.e. cummings. He has many poems about spring, actually; I just looked through a bunch, and like this one the best: Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a [...]
Archive for April, 2011
two spring poems
Posted in Poetry, tagged poem, spring on April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On Souls
Posted in Jewish Journey, tagged love, soul, soulmates on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent conversation with a friend I said, almost casually, “I believe I have a soul.” A statement worth examining a bit closer! Here is a post I wrote, a long time ago, when I first started thinking about souls…. . I believe I have a soul. I believe that there is something in [...]
Passion, Action, and Being Seen
Posted in General, tagged action, keshet, passion, queer on April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
or, Keshet Training—Part II (sort of). See: Keshet Training, Part I. Back in the days of AOL Instant Messenger, I was chatting with a friend when he said something about me that I have thought about ever since: i’ll tell you something what i like about julie is that she is passionate about the things [...]
One More Time, with Feeling
Posted in Art/Music/Theater, tagged instrument, learning, music, reading music, ukulele on April 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
One of my co-staff on the farm trip I wrote about brought two ukuleles along. “Why do you have two ukuleles?” I asked. She explained that she had bought one not too long ago, and then a friend gave her another as a gift. “I’m going to try and sell the first one,” she said. [...]
