Lemon slices In hot water Cough in my throat Aches in my joints Is this a cold coming on? Nah, can’t be. Too much to do. Too much going on. Still, I’ll eat soup for dinner. I’ll try to exercise to move whatever is going… Read More
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This morning
Long dreams of people, places, candles and leaks. At the end, a cousin cries out for another, to release him from jail. He escapes. I wake in my bed, remembering the last dialogue of the dream. I turn over, reach down for my notebook, my… Read More
On Appreciating Life’s Daily Rhythms
I woke up recently to a new awareness. For the first time that I am consciously aware of, I am reveling in the small, day-to-day details of my life. From the chirping of the birds outside my window starting at 7 every morning to the final… Read More
Water worries
What happens when a city runs out of water? What about a state? A country? The Brazilian mega-city of São Paulo is facing dwindling water supplies. Rationing is likely to come next. But what happens when a city of 20 million people runs out of water?… Read More
Women on 20s
A cool campaign is afoot to replace Andrew Jackson with a woman on the face of the US $20 bill. The campaign is well articulated, smart and working to build large grassroots support, by creating a multi-stage voting process to build a large movement of… Read More
Under the Glacier
It’s a pity we don’t whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. I am always trying to forget words. That is why I contemplate the lilies of the field, but in particular the glacier. If one looks at the glacier for long enough,… Read More
Spring Equinox Solar Eclipse: On Cycles, Revolutions and the Relative Size of Things
March 20, 2015 is the vernal equinox, the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This year, it happens to coincide with a new moon and a full solar eclipse, when the moon will completely cover the sun as it shines over the… Read More
Meditation on mountains
A mountain is a mountain. A mountain knows it is a mountain and a mountain cares nothing for knowing whether or not it is a mountain. A mountain is a mountain whether or not it thinks it is a mountain. A mountain is a mountain… Read More
On Journalism & How Things Are Complicated
Tonight I planned to write a piece inspired by a podcast I listened to this evening, with a non-fiction writer interviewed on the Longform Podcast (HT the wonderful Sabrina Hersi Issa for recommending it). In the interview, the writer spoke of how long it took for… Read More
Fragments
Moss garden Swingset Searching for golf balls in the pond at dusk Learning to ride a bicycle by falling, getting up, falling again Looking past the stars to the edges of the known world The smell of freshly shorn grass
Emily Jacobi 