Hello.
This photograph by Rinzi Ruiz is the featured image on the Contact Page of my website. It makes me happy when I see it, so I thought to bring it to the fore. It was taken and chosen before the pandemic. Now when I look at it, I see the cracks, but also those tiny green shoots pushing to the light.
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The Lord was trying out some material.
I AM WHO I AM, He said.
It didn’t sound right.
THAT’S WHO I AM. I AM.
It sounded ridiculous.
He didn’t favor definitions.
He’d always had the most frightful difficulties
with them.
—Joy Williams, ESSENTIAL ENOUGH from ninety-nine stories of GOD
HORSE AND RIDER
Once there was a horse, and on the horse there was a rider. How handsome they looked in the autumn sunlight, approaching a strange city! People thronged the streets or called from the high windows. Old women sat among flowerpots. But when you looked about for another horse or another rider, you looked in vain. My friend, said the animal, why not abandon me? Alone, you can find your way here. But to abandon you, said the other, would be to leave a part of myself behind, and how can I do that when I do not know which part you are?
—Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems
only one thing
made him happy
and now that
it was gone
everything
made him happy
—September 27, 2004, Montreal
—Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
Be well,
Marlene
Photograph by Rinzi Ruiz, @rinzizen and rinziruizphotography.com
Thank you, man! Always…..