musings

Off the page:

The Path to Tranquility, Dalai Lama; Goldenrod, Maggie Smith; The Quiet Music of Gently Fally Snow, Jackie Morris; Haiku-The Poetry of Nature, David Cobb; Every Atom, Erin Coughlin Holliwell; Fresh Water for Flowers, Valerie Perrin; The Isolation Journals, Suleika Jaouad; A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, Katie Farris; Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky; The Arachne Archives, Freya Rohn; wild spirit, soft heart; butterfies rising; What you have heard is true, Carolyn Forche; Beluga, a farewell to whales, Pierre Beland; Chiyo-ni, Patricia Donegan ed.; Beluga Days, Nancy Lord; Still Life, Louise Penny; Dalva, Jim Harrison; Black Ice, Michael Connelly, Winter in the Blood, James Welch; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell; Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline; I Am I Am, I Am and After You’d Gone, Maggie O’Farrell; Be/Hold A Friendship book, Shira Erlichman; Fatal Grace, Louise Penny; Three, Valerie Perrin; Substack Blog, Patti Smith; Frederick, Leo Leonni; Jimmy’s Blues, James Baldwin; How to be perfect, Ron Padgett; Oyster boy, Tim Burton; Breathing on Your Own, Richard Kehl, ed.; Anodyne, Khadijah Queen; The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle; Begin Again, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.; Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems of Wanda Colemen; Elizabeth Bishop, Poems, Prose and Letters, Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, Editors; Masha Gessen, The New Yorker; Elizabeth Bishop a Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall ; Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky; The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt; Becoming Earth by Eva Saulitis; The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde; One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan by Ryokan, trans. John Stevens

Off the screen:

The Borgias; YouTube vlogs of van conversions; Madam Secretary; The Handmaid’s Tale; Bohemian Rhapsody; Game of Thrones; Tolkien; Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries; The Rachel Maddow Show

In the air:

Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker; Thunder; Bela Fleck, the Flecktones, and the Colorado Symphony; Billie Holiday; Imagine Dragons; Green Day; Patti Smith; hummingbirds’ trill; KBCO 97.3FM; IZ; Willie K; squirrels’ chirp