All things need pruning. Today it was the bonsai juniper, and in the quiet snipping meanwhile, sap-full fragrant bits of myself tumbled into the pile of bright green castaway clippings. The new year will be new whether or not we make it new, and after the tunnel passage experience that was the last week of […]
The staggering procrastination which has stymied this post is likely proportional to the degree of denial serving to protect my selfhood from the very thing attacking it—cancer. Diagnosed with lymphoma in late August, I now find myself starting the “long march in a bathrobe” through the obstacle course of treatment, which so far, has frankly […]