He came back from halfway around the world like that,/ tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him/ set to bursting. Jay Deshpande, Actually Very Simple I came home from Bali tongue tied and bursting. Told by a healer there I di...

"You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light … Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only pea...

for Darlene Wind and James Welch I could say grace was a woman with time on her hands, or a white buffalo escaped from memory. But in that dingy light it was a promise of balance. We once again understood the talk of animals, and spring was lean a...

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. Jelly Roll Morton Summer is nature’s jazz. Improvisational and surprising. Blooming and joyous. Bounteous and overflowing. Hot days and long nights. Sweet like front porch tea. Its rhyt...