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| STEPHANE SALVI __________ |
it is almost time for the rainy season to return
I look forward to this every year
to stand among the pines
as a soft but steady rain washes the world clean
reminds me that we have all been here before
that we will all be here again
the seasons return one after another
the lovely rain returns again and again
see me stand
beautiful drops from the pines anoint me
james lee jobe
Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than that, pretend they don't believe in climate change for their own self interests.
Harrison Ford
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| STEPHANE SALVI __________ |
The days are shorter and a little cooler. We are drifting into autumn, and this Sacramento Valley is ripe with crops. Above, blue skies; the rainy season is still a few weeks away. Birds and squirrels seem happy, people, too. But not my wife, not me. Some of our son's ashes are scattered, but more remain, waiting for us to choose a location. A place to leave him behind, as we leave summer behind, as we leave a large part of our lives behind. There is a park across the street with a playground, a swimming pool, and a baseball diamond; we can hear the children laughing.
james lee jobe
Every man’s death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love that man who stands for us. We are not waiting for his history to be written. He passed here long ago.
Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
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| PAUL KLEE __________ |
a half-century ago there was a long summer
when we all made love a lot
all of my friends
it was almost incestuous
we all loved lee whitener's wife
but we couldn't save her
she died having loved most of us
and having made love to most of us
it was a summer that lasted for ten years
rock music and marijuana
mushrooms and lsd
some of us went to jail, but not me
I went to maryland
I went to california
I went to hell at the very end of it
lee whitener's wife died but by then
she wasn't his wife anymore
she took the pills and drank the drinks
and loved us all until it was too much
some say it was a terrible accident
just a mistake
that she went too far
I know better
she just ran out of love
how can you go on when love is done
I loved her too
like everyone else
my mother loved her
my sister loved her
it was a helluva summer
ten years long
and by the end of it most of us were spent
and I loved everyone myself
just like her
just like lee whitener's wife
but I lived
I survived the summer
the fall
the winter
there was a life and I lived it
but not her
lee whitener's wife took all of the pills
she drank the wine
the whiskey
the beer
And I loved her
for real
not like the others
who could see the beauty that she wore
like a cow wears a brand
who could smell the perfume
that her life gave to the world
but they were just there for the summer
for a toss with lee whitener's wife
it was really me who loved her
her name was cathy
and now the summer is gone
james lee jobe
In grief we access parts of ourselves that were somehow unavailable to us in the past. With awareness, the journey through grief becomes a path to wholeness.
Mark Matousek, “A Splinter of Love”
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| PAUL KLEE __________ |
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| My wife, Alex, and I down by Putah Creek. Yolo County, California. __________ |
I want to be a force for real good. in other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
John Coltrane
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