the timeless immensity of being alive

Thelonious Monk, BLUE MONK

Putah Creek is not exactly running low
I wouldn’t say that
But neither is it running high
Winter is upon us
The season of rain has begun
The crops, the trees, the creek
They wait long through the dry season
And so I do the same
Water is precious, water is life
Up early today, checking the sky
For rain

James Lee Jobe

"Sometimes truth is kinder than kindness."

Byron Katie

The whole planet is mapped 

And it’s all on your phone

So the place to go now

Is inward

James Lee Jobe 

The blue sky makes a poor mirror

There is a road that goes up there

But you’ll never able to see yourself

And that makes it hard to shave

You cannot vacuum the ocean floor

But you can sweep away your failed dreams

You have to want to, of course

Take heart, friend

Today is not tomorrow

And tomorrow doesn’t exist anyway

James Lee Jobe 

Alex Lee-Jobe. To call her a poet's wife doesn't seem fair. 
Political activist, teacher, Unitarian Universalist.

Like the sky at dawn, silent and vast, let my being merge in the timeless immensity of being alive. I am the universe, the universe is me.

James Lee Jobe 

The Hole In The Wall Gang, 1890s.
Front row left, The Sundance Kid.
Front row right, Butch Cassidy.

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