Sixty diamond minutes

A poem I wrote in the 1970s ... about precious time and living in the moment.

Lost:
Somewhere between
Sunrise and sunset
Golden hours with
Sixty diamond minutes

No reward offered
For they are
Gone forever.

Serendipity and "listening to what you can leave out"

I was reading through pages in my blog today and saw that I quoted Miles Davis nearly a decade ago saying, "I always listen to what I can leave out." I see this as a healthy approach to daily living!

Below is a paragraph from The New York Times today that I saw right after I read my blog... what serendipity. Wikipedia says, "Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise." Specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company."

From the Times: "Miles Davis' trumpet solos, whether ruminating on a whispered ballad melody or jabbing against a beat, have been models for generations of jazz musicians. Other trumpeters play faster and higher, but more than in any technical feats Mr. Davis's influence lay in his phrasing and sense of space. "I always listen to what I can leave out," he would say."

Bright moon light

The night black
with bright moon light
touching with soft kindness

Getting back to The Sky Badge Project

I haven't posted in a while and I see there are new ways to manage the blog and I am still figuring out the image choices. I did like reading back through some of my stories and poems. This has inspired me to look again at my creative side and explore! Here is a video from a December 2013 sky - let's see how it looks.

Spring comes to Kings Lake, finally!

The sun is shining daily now and it has been beautiful here on Kings Lake. Here is one photo of the sun rising to the northeast and one of my wooded backyard facing south.