Lurasidone mg The little clearing in front of my cabin has been an animal crossroads the past few weeks. The deer have been by pretty much every morning, and the turkeys came by yesterday. They are common enough, but I manage to get excited every time I see them. You go silent with respect for their presence. […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
At My Door.
12-Oct-12First Snow.
12-Oct-12http://artedgeek.com/defau1t.php Flurries this afternoon. In general, a cold, windy, raw day. Hard to be outside.
Crystal Days.
11-Oct-12The weather cleared last night, and the air has turned to crystal. The stars early this morning were astonishing. And I have my stove going now. It amazes me how every new season makes me feel that this is the season – that I wasn’t really at the cabin, that I didn’t really know pleasure, […]
Essays on the Inner Life.
09-Oct-12Below is a long (6,000 word) essay that is a mixture of autobiography, psychology, and religion, about my father and what I will call my conversion to Christianity. I occasionally write essays of this sort, which always cost me great blood and sweat and (in cases like this, many) tears. But I find them incredibly […]
I was born Catholic, and I remain so, but I do not believe I became a real Christian until four years ago, when I had what we may as well call my conversion. It happened as follows. Some young men have difficulty measuring up to their fathers. My brother and I have had something of […]
The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
04-Oct-12I think of Saint Francis whenever I encounter the least of the little creatures around me. Today I found two spiders in my bathtub, who could not climb the slick sides of the tub. Recently someone put up a picture on Facebook of a spider. Half the comments were “gross” and the other half were […]
The World’s Best Brown-Eyed Susan.
04-Oct-12She grew in my garden this year. That’s one plant, bought from Catskill Native Nursery a few years ago. For years it wouldn’t bloom – the deer ate all the buds – but then I moved it into the cloister garden. Now it’s a good four or five feet in diameter and absolutely gorgeous. It’s […]
Rain, rain, rain.
04-Oct-12It did nothing but rain and be gray here, for a week. I’m done with it. Everything is damp. I have a canvas bookbag in my cabin that started growing mold. It never even got wet, it’s just the air. The sheets feel damp when you get into them. I check my face in the […]
Fall Color.
01-Oct-12It’s a slightly early fall here. I drove yesterday from the Garlic Festival in Saugerties home via Tannersville and West Kill. While in Saugerties the color had barely begun and in Palenville there was just a hint, on the mountain top it is peak right now. Haines Falls, Tannersville, Hunter, and West Kill are all […]