Category: On Various Topics

  • On Words

    Words. They assign ideas to what is sensually tangible.  –Kill a deer, and smoke it, slowly–  With these words I have invoked an image, sensations arise internally, based on understood concepts and word associations. You may think of dusk. Dusk, and a wild landscape. Perhaps this sentence gets you thinking about whispering foliage and acute…

  • On Valentine’s Day

    By Anna Ley I grew up, as many of you have, celebrating Valentine’s Day. As a child, it was a bigger ordeal, what with parents and adults trying to instill the concept of “love” as a value, something to be spread and shared with the people in one’s life. In elementary school the Valentine’s tradition…