stories

Early every Sunday morning, I haul my recycling down to the county Farmer's Market, as I don't get local pick-up, and it's self-serve (I enjoy the peacefulness of a space where the trust in self-responsibility is encouraged).

As we in the Business do when we want to take something (or some things) to the "dump", we in the Big City go to a local Transfer Station.

--by Pink Floyd (from their 1971 album Meddle); recorded live in 1971 on-site in Pompeii, Italy

With Mom last night, at Café Lily for dinner, and we enjoyed such a lovely time.

The meatballs were delightful.

Betty is the most delightful host/owner.

I go downstairs to the lobby of the motel on the Blue Ridge here in North Carolina to get some coffee.

The proprietor--up early, as usual--taking things to the Incontinental Breakfast Nook, stopped me and said, "Have you read the paper this morning?"

Suspended, twenty feet in the air
Clinging to this trunk, branches in my hair
I see you, closely, yet not close, enough
Clinging, you see, lets us see more stuff

Lovely Stewartia, you grow so, so ever higher in your quest for living, it seems cruel to trim the pinnacle in your creation, but sometimes one has to do wrong so that one may do what's right.

Ah, my ready steeds ~smile~ you move me faster through both time, and space.

I'm fascinated by the elemental gifts of the Earth.

Particularly attractive is in how versatile they can be--singularly, and in the aggregate--in the construction of entirely new things.

Arriving home this afternoon, a stark contrast was apparent: my walk and stoop had been power-washed!

I subscribe, for the most part, to a Carl Jung'ian view of things, and I feel very lucky that so much of the satisfaction of who I find my self to be is reflected in the thoughts and ideas he most-eloquently described, the truths of which are so personally self-evident as I continue to take them in, and find the senses to understand.

Grown on a hillside in North Carolina, these American boxwoods are a staple in our plantings.

I can't more eloquently describe the effect they have on a person as others have done, so I'll just share how I plant 'em.