Archive - Starshine+Clay

O how this one will augment our lives!

With thanks to Dante for the gentle reminder that others are a gift

Feb 6 •

January 2025

No poem or play or song / can fully right a wrong

Heaney's Philoctetes on the impossibly messy politics of common life

Jan 22 •

O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress

Two calibrations on the New Year from W.H. Auden

Jan 15 •

December 2024

How rarely I have stopped to thank the steady effort of the world to stay the world

Three poems of wonder and gratitude that the world, indeed, keeps turning

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

...and she cried.

Steve Turner's wisdom about convenient myths

Nov 10, 2024 •

October 2024

Why did I never see it for what it was: abundance?

Two Ada Limón poems artfully paired to reflect growth as grace

Oct 9, 2024 •

for I had lost the path that does not stray

On Dante, translations, and the murky forest of middle age

Oct 2, 2024 •

September 2024

Something less orthodoxly dramatic

Wallace Stegner, an anniversary, and the drama of living a quiet, faithful life

Sep 18, 2024 •

August 2024

The sea can do craziness... and so, no doubt, can you...

Fresh from the beach with Mary Oliver

Aug 14, 2024 •

July 2024

Now you must go out into your heart as onto a vast plain

Ranier Maria Rilke and nature as soulscape

Jul 28, 2024 •

June 2024

to prepare a face to meet the faces I will meet

T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and learning to live with questions

Jun 30, 2024 •

the whole similitude of the bees

The wisdom of St. Basil the Great and insights from irreverant mystics

Jun 22, 2024 •

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