“Let us be grateful to the people who bring us happiness; they are the charming gardeners through whom our souls are made to bloom.”
— Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to the people who bring us happiness …”
Photo by DrStew82 of Cameron Antiques Street Fair, 2017
Photo credit: DrStew82, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
So we’re back on a healthy eating kick again.
We’ll see how long I last this time.
What you see are arcane foodstuffs like melons, bananas, celery and carrots — drawn from the farthest reaches of the supermarket. (Any aisle not containing meat, cheese or cookies might as well be the darkest rain forest to me.)
Cover to “Grendel: Devil’s Crucible — Defiance,” Matt Wagner, 2024
Dark Horse Comics.
“Dover Cliffs,” Edwin John Ellis
Oil on canvas.
“Standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
— from J.D. Salinger’s “A Girl I Knew”
The Piker Press publishes “A February Walk Short Poem”
I am honored today to see The Piker Press feature “A February Walk Short Poem.”
Thanks yet again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to showcase my work within this terrific online indie lit magazine! 🙂
“Forgotten Village,” Arkhip Kuindzhi, 1847
