Tuesday and a Poem

Bright sun and warm, although the weather guys are predicting the possibility of a "wintry mix" for Christmas.

Here is an excellent quote: This is the Heraclitus theory of personality — you never meet the same person twice. That's Rabbi David Wolpe, writing in the LA Review of Books.

Also here is a poem:

Saying the First Words

I could live like that,
putting my chair by the window,
making my tea,
letting the light in,
trapping the spider in my left hand.

I could pull the one book down
and find my place inside the four worlds
and face the wrong way
and live forever by mercy and wisdom.

I could love the pine tree,
and the road going back and forth like a blue thread,
and the fire inside the hills,
and the grass going down to the river -- my wildest dream.


~ Gerald Stern
From The Paris Review, No. 90, Winter 1983
Online source here.