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IT IS BETTER,
I THINK, TO GRAB AT THE STARS THAN TO SIT FLUSTERED BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU CANNOT REACH THEM.
R.A. Salvatore
( A Real Shooting Star in Los Angeles, 2013)
EXCELSIOR
If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining. (Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook)
SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE IS TRAVELING FURIOUSLY TOWARD YOU,
AT INCREDIBLE SPEED, TRAVELING DAY & NIGHT, THROUGH BLIZZARDS & DESERT HEAT, ACROSS TORRENTS, THROUGH NARROW PASSES. BUT WILL HE KNOW WHERE TO FIND YOU, RECOGNIZE YOU WHEN HE SEES YOU, GIVE YOU THE THING HE HAS FOR YOU?
(John Ashbery)
(Window Reflections, LAX, 2013)
BY ARTIST
I MEAN OF COURSE EVERYONE WHO HAS TRIED TO CREATE SOMETHING WHICH WAS NOT HERE BEFORE HIM WITH NO OTHER TOOLS OR MATERIAL THAN THE UNCOMMERCIABLE ONES OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
(Faulkner)
(Open Fist Theatre Company, Hollywood, CA 2012)
STARLIGHTS IN WINTER
(Burbank, CA, 2013)
Chunky and noisy,
but with stars in their black feathers,
they spring from the telephone wire
and instantly
they are acrobats
in the freezing wind.
And now, in the theater of air,
they swing over buildings,
dipping and rising;
they float like one stippled star
that opens,
becomes for a moment fragmented,
then closes again;
and you watch
and you try
but you simply can’t imagine
how they do it
with no articulated instruction, no pause,
only the silent confirmation
that they are this notable thing,
this wheel of many parts, that can rise and spin
over and over again,
full of gorgeous life.
Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard, I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.
2013
There are no real ends – only beginnings. 
(Happy New Year!)
LIFE IS NOT
a set of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
(Virginia Wolf).
(The sun, following our plane back into LA, 2012)If I Had to Use Words, I Would Choose These
God, I love this quote & I loved this hike. Enough said.
(Lantau Peak, Hong Kong, 2007)
I Can Feel It.
Somewhere sometime we must have passed each other, like going and coming trains, both of us looking the other way. (Lisa Mueller)
Yogiology 