by Warren Gaston | Jan 14, 2018
I did not board the train, and therefore, I did not unexpectedly arrive in Seattle after a long cross-country trip I did not take. No one waited for me at the station, and if they did it was a sheer coincidence. I did not tell anyone to meet me, or not. Having not...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 10, 2018
“Into this world we’re thrown / Like a dog without a bone”. The Doors “Riders on the Storm” (1971) after a slow gathering of material sensations & molecules suddenly we arrive thrown into a pattern of particulate particulars...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 2, 2018
“We formerly erred through ignorance. We go wrong today through the extent of our knowledge.” Odysseus Elytis* Much, we know much, so very, very much, and so much more, much more than we thought we knew the day before. Stacks of facts. We know little things. s u b a t...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 31, 2017
The earth turns the sun arcs west across the sky, and the moon dances bravely in the dark among the black branches of an oak. The clouds blow wither they want, or so it seems, until the wind kisses your face cold and you remember we are often moved by powers we cannot...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 26, 2017
“How can we continue to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this queer cosmic town give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honor of being our own town?” G. K. Chesterton In the above quote, the Christian...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 18, 2017
Most of me is not mine. My provisions are provided to me more than I provide. I am almost wholly given, by the force that gives the sun, gives birds, gives wheat, that thrusts up mountains, that shoves flowers out of soil, that troubles waters and stirs wind. Over the...
