Coloratura or clarinet? Our poetry group is named after the Coloratura sounds made by magpies. Or are they imitating the clarinet in its fluid mellow continuity? Whichever one it is, the warbles have inspired local poets. We have decided to come together above the...
Hearing others discuss Transfigured Sea offers me new insights into the story I’ve crafted. Recently, I listened to an intriguing conversation about the novel’s opening chapters, and I’d love to share some of their reflections—and my own thoughts—with you. The Beach:...
Myth The mythical Gaia was the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth. She was the Greek version of Mother Nature, while her name actually meant “Earth Mother”. Hypothesis The Gaia hypothesis, put forward by James Lovelock and developed by Lynn Margulis, says...
In “Mansfield Park”, Jane Austen said “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” I found this quotation on the cover of Jane Austen: Journal, POTTER STYLE, 2007, Random House, China. It is so true and we so...
This poem is on p.17 of The Structure of Light: poems, haiku and prose, 2005, Adelaide, Seaview Press meditation to be above all to be within all to be stillness to be silence to be pure expansiveness to be to become living light to become melting to become presence... 
