Hummingbird

An unexpected appearance: a ruby-throated hummingbird. Very rare in our vicinity; only 1 spotted in an annual Audubon count of sixty-mile area. The bird hovered...

Definitions

The dictionary does not help distinguish among words like hermit, recluse, and solitary. Etymologies help but each word is full of our own personal and subjecti...

Tremolo

Early morning, listening to music featuring a koto. At the moment of executing the guitar equivalent of a tremolo (called, I gather, oshi tome yuri-iro in Japan...

Moonlight II

How startling to be awakened in the middle of the night by moonlight streaming through an uncurtained window. It is almost a metaphor for enlightenment, especia...

Twilight II

With twilight our activities should recede. If we listen to music, read, or converse quietly, it should be with a sense of distension, resolution, tranquility. ...

Twilight

Twilight is the hour of dissolution. Sunlight does not simply disappear. Sunlight dissolves, and with it the clear shapes of trees, the contours of the land, th...