First Post

FOR ALL
Ah to be alive
on a mid-September morn
fording a stream
barefoot, pants rolled up,
holding boots, pack on,
sunshine, ice in the shallows,
northern rockies.
Rustle and shimmer of icy creek waters
stones turn underfoot, small and hard as toes
cold nose dripping
singing inside
creek music, heart music,
smell of sun on gravel
I pledge allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all.
Gary Snyder
This is a new reiteration of my web site. Occassioned by the demise of Mobileme, its previous home. I wanted to start where I started on this path. Working with the poet Gary Snyder building his house "Kitkitdizz" on the San Juan Ridge. His poem FOR ALL was read at the recent marriage of our daughter in honor of her home.
I will be adding thoughts and photos as regularly as is possible.