You will understand your dog when seeing into him is the only thing you have to do.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
If you live long enough, you will learn of birds. If you live long enough in one place, you will learn of individual birds. Then, if you have eyes for it, you will learn the birds have learned of you.
Bury me where I fall, or throw me in the wind. I was a boy of water, as blue as superior and as deep. I have lived the greater portion of my life unknown to those the closest. As for salvation, the water, consecration, the water, destination, the water. Bury me where I fall, or throw […]
He carried a shy concern that his retraction from society might lead him to despair, or leave him with some sense he will never be enough, or cause him to not keep his agreement with God he would live a worthy life. He paused at his penchant for widened swaths of solitude and the private beauty […]
He woke in the night knowing his truth and all he could think was now what? Once a man is at the bottom of himself, having made his rounds with delusion, diversion, distraction, addiction, muse, role, title, persona, system and schtick, there is nothing left but God and the coming dawn. He rose, he blinked, he yawned, […]
Three black crows on blue borne sky. One with crust of bread in beak. Two with crust of bread in eye. I to hear the matter speak.
Their inward rivers have surged too strong for this familiar dale, their currents coursing outward to broader valleys and farther seas. Being is an empty absolute, for now is to do, to task, to venture on the who they will become. We send them wrapped in prayers with songlines from our brighter dreams. We fly our flags unfurled and keep our fears […]
James Scott Smith 