I’ve been reading John Muir’s account of his 1879 trip to Alaska, which he wrote based on his journals and notes from that trip and then published in 1915. As the small ship on which he sailed was passing among…
Perhaps you have been wondering if part 3 of this series would ever arrive. It would have posted a couple of weeks ago, but I went to Costa Rica on business. Yes, while much of the U.S. was enduring its first…
Sometimes I’m thinking about poetry itself, not reading a specific poem. On my last trip I found myself arguing against what I remember as a definition of poetry as “strong emotion recollected in tranquility.” Of course this argument was all…
