Moving, Electing, Noveling.

Oh my, my.  I moved today, for the 14th time since July (but who’s counting.)  And I am living in America, a country I am proud to live in for the first time in 8 long, long years.  And I am many thousands of words behind in my novel-writing word count, but am having a [...]

Dancing and swimming

Swimming upstream
seems to me a strange destiny
for an entire species.
Then again,
if the water didn’t move,
nothing would be nourished.
If the gravity didn’t pull,
the water wouldn’t move.
The interdependencies
created by having all of us here
are beyond any possibility of understanding.
I wonder
that there is any swimming at all.
There must be an extraordinary
amount [...]