Poetry, favorite quotations, and journal entries. My inspiration is this quotation by Loren Eiseley: "Everything in the mind is in rat's country... Nothing is lost, but it can never be again as it was. You will only find the bits and cry out because they were yourself...
Friday, July 30, 2010
Rat's Country: Have you ever thought...
Have you ever thought how easy it is to step out of muddy boots? Voila! Your clean feet.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Rat's Country: Begin the week thinking about generosity...
The woman who sells blueberries at the farmer's market in Fort Bragg told me this: "I am a retired nurse and there's this doctor I know, worked with for years, and when he comes to the farmer's market to buy blueberries, he always gives me a hundred dollar bill. He says, 'Give the next twenty-five people a basket of blueberries.'"
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Rat's Country: I had an awful thought about...
I had an awful thought about spending so much time with old, old people: that maybe you can catch senility just the way you can catch a cold
Friday, July 2, 2010
Rat's Country: Fixed star
Writing in my journal allows me to start my day as a fixed star in my private universe rather than as a busy little satellite spinning around someone else's planet.
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