Tag: outdoors
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* rivers, Jim Harrison & you
In a life properly lived, you’re a river. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it; you can’t figure out a banal game plan applicable to all situations; you just have to go with the “beingness” of life, as Rilke would have it. Jim Harrison…
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* Linda Pastan, apples & the friday influence
This week on the Influence: Linda Pastan! What moves me about the lyric below is how it follows the turns of simple tone and lets the subtleties gleam. What does that mean? Peep the line: maybe the wind would wind itself – with its alliterative w’s, but also how the word wind turns over in meaning and pronunciations from noun to verb, seamlessly.…
The Friday Influence 