“Wildness has no conditions, no sure routes, no peaks or goals, no source that is not instantly becoming something more than itself, then letting go of that, always becoming.”
— Gretel Ehrlich
5.17.26
below the dam
the river runs
like a newborn
as we play
in the greatest
greens and blues
spring swings
the heart back
to where it sings
5.18.26
in this era
i saunter
toward spaces
where the objective
is this moment
5.19.26
the place where it all comes together
is the plane between life and death
it’s the place we could all come together
5.20.26
coffee and birds
extend the most
natural expression
of gratitude
every morning
how will I
ever return the favor?
5.21.26
landscapes emit form
and from that form
emerges a configuration
within which
the shape of my life
is revealed
5.22.26
to the list of
things i know
i’ve now added:
that i know
very little
5.23.26
you know those people,
the ones who speak
through a half-smile?
you can’t fabricate that
curiosity
you can’t deny that
peace
↓ inspiration ↓
it is spring in montana and it is glorious.
“Some days I think this one place isn’t enough. That’s when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and have the know-how and guts to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destination. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that most everything is here. To my left a towering cottonwood is lunatic with bird song. Under it, I’m a listening post while it’s great, gray trunk — like a baton — heaves its green symphony into the air.”
— Gretel Ehrlich
“Today it is enough to make a shadow.”
— Gretel Ehrlich
is one of my favorite thinkers. I’ve learned a lot from him over the years. His newest essay is linked above. In the piece, he argues that the self and the economy are participants in a living web, not units to be optimized within a machine.
love,
g