There is a compass set deep in the pelvis, I think, though I don’t know where it came from nor if it is made of bone or sinew. Maybe it’s a compass made of ideas, if ideas could calcify or thread themselves into corporal tissue. Whatever this thing is it it is central. It is …
Now, says the sponsor, brushing her hands as if detox was nothing, admitting alcoholism old hat, making a commitment to sobriety just a little matinee that happened last Tuesday. Now, says the sponsor: let’s have a look at whose really to blame, here. Let’s take an assessment of your character. I was sitting in a …
200 years ago, you could get lost in this prairie. Lost in the Indian grass, switchgrass, coneflowers, sunflowers, balancing stars, goldenrod, wild indigo. There would be interruption of hardwood forest. North of here, you’d be in pine and water. Hundreds of years ago, travelers could leave the southern tip of Lake Michigan, where Chicago is …
When all else fails, do nothing. Chances are, you’ve been trying too hard, to do something that won’t work, that you aren’t capable of doing, that may not even be possible. Chances are, you’ve been resisting the way things are, and wearing a mask that resists your real self. That doesn’t work. What works best …
