“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
Thank you, Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006)
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The gift of life
Dec 29, ’13
8:30 PM
When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself. And I think the world tends to forget that this … body of work … is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life.
Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate
Posted on the third anniversary of my mother’s death
Random acts
Oct 17, ’11
12:45 PM
One of my colleagues, Bob Tschannen-Moran, has written a weekly newsletter for years. I enjoy it immensely. This week he wrote about kindness. He retold an old story with a new twist, which he borrowed from National Geographic photographer Dewitt Jones. It reminded me of how powerful little acts of kindness can be. Here it is [from provision #742 of Bob’s newsletter].
“Several years ago, there was a woman in San Francisco who
What is a tesselation?
Jul 26, ’11
6:27 PM
It shows up in nature 
and in art
… in everyday walks of life
and in exotic places.
It’s just a pattern with no gaps or overlaps … from the Latin tessela, which means “small square.” Think chickenwire or patchwork quilts. Tesselations.
Language. It’s almost as fascinating as the world it represents.
