… There was a brilliant bright light spreading on the water contagious as fire but just as I went to write about it it wasn’t there anymore. For a whole month in China I lugged all my stuff over my shoulder until I tore the muscles. Trying to write now is unbearable. But cicadas sing….

… 151 My feet are resting in the alfalfa. Bumblebees cover and bend the blossoms even further down than the warm wind is blowing through them. Out on the water reflected transitory clouds turn light into shadows over me and the world around. An unfurling dragonfly’s whirled to the back of my hand. Its round…

… for Rosa Parks Out of the ordinary there will come From time to time the good and very brave Extraordinary, someone who can save Us from our own damned selves and make us one Humanity. Children take Rosa Parks For an example, a common seamstress Who sat herself down in a seat she was…