The hippopotamus is a vegetarian but ferociously territorial (you might find that true of certain vegans you know), and will flip a raft or bite it in half: once one is in the water, the crocodiles sh...
The full moon - the mandala of the sky.
The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. Whil...
The day of the full moon, when the moon is neither increasing nor decreasing, the Babylonians called Sa-bat, meaning heart-rest. It was believed that on this day, the woman in the moon, Ishtar, as the...
The beet must have been out of the ground a week or more, for it had the ashen exterior of a cancer victim.
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul,...
THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet t...
Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.
Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it’s mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren’t afraid to look and...
Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East.
Slang just makes people more stupid, that’s all,
Simultaneously a frantic, high-tech juggernaut and a timeless Asian dream, Bangkok straddles like no other metropolis the boundary between acrid and sweet, soft and hard, sacred and profane. It’s a si...
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
Pious dogma, if allowed to flourish, will always drive magic away.
Pigeon she strut on the rooftopCockroach he strut on the sink My baby strut down to JerusalemWhere blood is the favorite drink
Peeple of zee wurl, relax
Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It's the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybo...
Our religion, our party, our tribe, our town, our school, our race, our nation. Believe. Belong. Behave. Or Be damned.