kismet

The ‘Ah’ of Seeing (H is for Hawk)

This perfect, luminous passage from H is for Hawk reminds us to SEE miracles hiding in plain sight.

A One-Year-Old’s Brilliant Improvisation

MANY improvisations are inspired by mistakes that accidentally afford a new view of something we take for granted. After Mira Keras‘ one-year-old knocked a chair over, she immediately saw the possibilities in the situation.

looking for a poem, it found me (how answers come)

Here’s the kind of thing that happens all the time around here: I was looking at a stack of poetry books — my morning reading — for a poem to post for a shift of view. I flipped through Gary Snyder, Su Tung Po, Pablo Neruda, then got distracted by an email. It was from…