Solitary, paper collage, 2024 Nature’s place in man is no less significant than man’s place in nature. Man in nature is man subjected; nature in man, recognized and used, is intelligence and art. – John Dewey What I love most about being in nature is the unmistakable feeling of being in contact with something greater […]
Over the Horizon, paper collage, 2024 The older I get, the less I view my life as a series of successes and failures, goals to be accomplished, or opportunities for productivity and improvement. I look at myself at age 42 and realize that I am not, nor have I ever been, something to be optimized […]
if we listen closely we can hear the dissertations of seasonsat first, a bit coarse around the edgeslike an old jazz record, a voicethat knows in a quiet place what all the hearts are hungry to hearand then the immediate fruit: a promenade among dogwoods, a pendulum thick with blackberry leaves, the languishing summer and […]