Monthly Archives: February 2024

The Illusion of Separateness The ancients called it ekstasis,or outside oneself.But does that really happen?Are we ever outside ourselves? Lovers do not live in time—coitus, and then a shift in focus:the clock starts… Glint of sun off a jumbo jetturning … Continue reading →

Bus Poem: My Iranian Gentleman In his soft-spoken, conspiratorial voicehe told me his name,but it flew in one earand out the otherand I failed to ask again.To this day he is: my Iranian gentleman. His jackets were a blend of … Continue reading →

[tanka] deep grasses chokethe broad pathwe used to walkour past is lostin a seamless field of green

Just Asking Questions Change, development, and growthis everywhere we lookin academics, the business world,science and technology,in music, the arts, in history,and in our own evolution from youth to old age. We think nothing of it! And yet, persistently, we are … Continue reading →