I had to find the passage back/ To the place I was before…* Where do you find yourself at this instant? Suppose you lie on your belly on the forest floor and see this in front of your face? Who are you? When is it? How have you found yourself here – on purpose, through… Continue Reading >>>
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Wildness: Now More Then Ever: Breakthrough for the week of 5/18/2020
Poet Gary Snyder has always invited us to walk the the Way of the Natural World, the Way of the Wild Unknown. Wild cannot survive on social media. It will never be given a seven figure advance. Wild cannot be licensed or commodified, though our capitalist corporate “culture” does its best to get rich off… Continue Reading >>>
Ancestor of Corona Virus: Breakthrough April 30, 2020
We have brought the Plague on us. The Plagues. Our species is filthy – yep, here I go again, and here’s why: I found this Corona empty in the forest. There are dozens of stories about its origin. You go first. You send yours, and I’ll send mine next week. Send your double-spaced writing in… Continue Reading >>>
Fill at least one of the holes in our not-so-brave new world: write now…
S/he/you have been waiting in the driver’s seat of her/his/your old car for five hours. S/he/you bought a pint of ice cream maybe an hour before the rain started. The ice cream is gone. The rain isn’t… (Now, it’s your turn, friends.) Start with the guy in the red shirt – what he’s doing, how… Continue Reading >>>
Change is the Only Constant: Breakthrough for the week of 4/6/2020
I would write around the central fact of our contemporary human lives if I could, but anything I begin spirals back into a deadly virus. No one I know has died – or been sick with this plague. No one I know knows anyone who has died or been sick. Yet, we are flooded with… Continue Reading >>>
Medicine; Keeping It Simple – and Old School
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: You see, war is not the answer / For only love can conquer hate. / You know we’ve got to find a way / To bring some lovin’ here today. -Marvin Gaye, singer and songwriter (2 Apr 1939-1984), What’s Goin’ On This video is perfect for now. Note how much touch is… Continue Reading >>>
Fun and Games: Breakthrough for the week of 3/30/2020
If even the planets can’t fathom Here who will break up these fun and games? —Ramprasad Mystery tosses a fatal illness to humans. “Here. Catch. Or, if you’re lucky, don’t catch.” Mystery tosses you and me Not Knowing. “Here. Catch. You are in this game whether you want to be – or not.” We are… Continue Reading >>>
Breakthrough may have a few interruptions – no alarm
My new webmaster will be working on it. Feel free to use the drawing for a prompt. And, if any of you have writing you would like me to post, please send to bstarr67@gmail.com. Share on Your Social Media Continue Reading >>>
Welcome to the World: Breakthrough for the week of March 18, 2020
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar… Continue Reading >>>
House Without Walls*:Breakthrough for the week of 3/11/2020
This pile of rubble was my beloved cabin home for twenty-three years. It stood in a circle with a dozen other cabins at the edge of an intact Ponderosa pine forest a little south of Flagstaff, Arizona. The people who built it used salvaged building materials and wallboard. There was a kitchen with a huge… Continue Reading >>>
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