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Moon and June

It is July. My last remaining brother, Tony, died on April 15. 2021. That June, I returned to San Francisco... Read More

Life returned to normal in the bookshop. As normal as ever was in the magical place. Books would still... Read More

I am glad I pushed myself to plant all the tomato and pepper plants I'd bought a few weeks ago. I failed... Read More

All there is is memory. And the moment. And aspiration. That is all. True and not true. It is good to awaken... Read More

Thursday, June 9, just after midnight on the mountain. Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream... Read More

Half a million years ago, we walked along the Thames. The land was rich and cool. Little did we know... Read More