San Sargasso

I Am as Large ...

I am as large or as deep or as rich as what I see.

One automatically believes that all the grandeur one has witnessed is outside of oneself, and that consequently one is extremely small and insignificant by comparison; but sometimes I know profoundly that I am what I see, and that means that I have been as grand and brilliant as anything I have seen that is grand and brilliant. I don't own or keep or claim anything of it, but I know that I have been big enough to encompass it. I have been equal to it.

Strange: here we are, creators of vast rich worlds of sense, and yet we think of ourselves as nonentities.

An Outlandishly Intricate Timepiece

Why we move each other even when we think we are not thinking of each other:  each of us is like a coiled spring in an outlandishly intricate timepiece.

More Chalkboard Wisdom

I was walking up some steps to an interior courtyard in Balboa Park and wondered if I could have been - imagined myself to be - for a moment - a Spanish monk. Not such an outlandish idea, I thought, but I would not want to live without the release of my devilish laughter. And when I got home I wrote on the chalkboard:

No veneration without laughter.