While there is still time

"Dozens of studies demonstrate that solitary people have a vastly increased rate of premature death from all causes - they are three t...

Best stress-buster ever, this piece. On repeat. Spiegel im Spiegel Nicola Beneditti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4LlCtvgwE

Unbeaten by the rain Unbeaten by the wind Bested by neither snow nor summer heat Strong of body Free of desire Never angry Always smiling q...

Have You Prayed? Li-Young Lee When the wind turns and asks, in my father's voice, Have you prayed? I know three things. One: I'm ne...

Unique, I think, is the Scottish tartle , that hesitation when introducing someone whose name you’ve forgotten. And what could capture caf...

"...Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance - a symphony of mutual exchange an...

From here: https://www.facebook.com/Labyrinths.PhilipJohn

A Poem for Jennifer, after Hiromi Ito My father died. I opened the door and there you stood tall and slender as light. Gift in your hands: ...

Wordless Love Note Once when you two were leaving a party, you stood behind her as you both waited for the elevator. You were still only ge...

Evolution is not an upward staircase "Many people conceive of evolution as an upward staircase, an unfolding sequence that produces ev...

    Hitchhiker The hitch-hiker I remember best was someone you might call a hobo. Lord knows what he'd been ...

In the Middle of a life that's as complicated as everyone else's, struggling for balance, juggling tim...

Winter Stars My father once broke a man’s hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill his ow...

I haven’t written a single poem in months. I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, pondering the riddle of power and the...

Even now, I hear one and I long to leave without a suitcase or a plan; I want to step onto the platform and reach for the porter’s hand and...