“Ambition,” by David Whyte

(Photo by Steve Rawley) “Ambition is frozen desire, the current of a vocational life immobilized and over concretized to set, unforgiving goals. Ambition abstracts us from the underlying elemental nature of the creative conversation while providing us the cover of a target that has become false through over description, over familiarity or too much easy …

photo of the day

(Photo by Steve Rawley) From our garden. “As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.” — Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

photo of the day

Because playing hockey, playing sax, writing, working, being a dad, being a husband, writing, editing/designing/producing my books, playing piano, taking care of the cats, working, biking, playing table tennis, building things, gardening, working some more, and everything else the Renaissance Man does apparently was not enough… …my husband took up drumming a year or two …

Fall is coming on… boo!

It was chilly last week. The mornings and late evenings are getting cooler; it’s getting dark earlier. I don’t need to water the yard or the garden as much — the tomatoes and melons are ripening and the flowers and herbs are established and holding their own. I wanted to warm up and couldn’t find …

QOTD: Steinbeck

“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no …

our friend from the pond

We saw this heron, posed like a sculpture and busy fishing, when we were out for a walk one evening. Perfection. And the yappy little dogs who came flying down the path didn’t even startle her. (Photo by Steve Rawley)