Poem accepted!

My poem "Universal Translator" has been accepted for publication by Picayune Magazine.

Poems. New ones.

I've posted 7.

Both

One can celebrate what has been gained
while still lamenting what has been lost.

Roasted red pepper soup

From this recipe.

Books (Wieseltier)

My books are not dead weight, they are live weight—matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.

Leon Wieseltier

On habit

A commitment to habit is the instinctual protection and validation of one's memories of youth, which, if not honored and renewed, might erode into insignificance, leaving one without a foundation upon which to build for the future.

On skepticism

Skepticism is an enlargement, not a reduction. It is not a denial, but the allowance that one's initial or preferred view of something may be partial, contingent, or—yes—even wrong.

On death

Death does not worry me—it is just another moment.
Being dead is what offends me. Although that, too,
might be as interesting and as trivial as life if only
it were as brief, a transition rather than a destination,
a caesura rather than a cessation. I want two things
forever: to continue and to change.

On love

If you detect a flow of love in another,
drink deeply at once, for it will soon run dry.

When we have invested (Proust)

Other people usually leave us so indifferent that when we have invested in one of them such possibilities of causing us pain and joy, that person seems to belong to another universe, is surrounded with poetry, turns our life into a sort of expanse of emotion in which that person will be more or less close to us.

Marcel Proust, from Swann's Way

I guess

If all decisions are guesses,
then it is a moral imperative
to construct the wisdom to guess well.

Poems

I've posted 6 new poems (mostly haiku).

Doughnuts

Made from this recipe.

New poems posted

10.

Relationship

Men play Janus
because women worship Proteus.

Doors

A philosophy that opens the door at one end of a hallway locks the door at the other end.

Poems

I've posted 10 new poems.