Living Rootless

  Speaking of maps, Judgmental Maps is always binge-worthy.  And these: 2013.05: Another Geography Lesson: Americans' Map of the World ...

    Lake Martin, Louisiana. September 2014. Credit: Mzuriana .   From the library, I borrowed Jon Kabat-Zinn's book, Mindfulness for Beg...

  Uncertainty .    A state of being that is so insidious that interrogators use it as a tool of torture.    Some related posts:  2023.07: 20...

    Dwan Light Sanctuary. Near Las Vegas, New Mexico. October 2007. Credit: Mzuriana . In July 2023, I wrote:  I do not have a daily practic...

    This still makes me chuckle.       Tuesday, January 6, 2015 Relocation 2015 So here I am in Missouri for my usual interregnum betwee...

    Shirt on a fence. Mobile, Alabama. August 2023. Credit: Mzuriana . Below is what I wrote last year at this time about the word of the y...

    Coffee, a book, a notebook, and phone. Lalileba, Ethiopia. January 2011. Credit: Mzuriana .   Ten years later, my struggle is no less. I...

In winter 2018, I spent a month in Mexico City . My accommodations, originally a Friends (Quaker) guesthouse, gave its third floor over to s...

In winter 2018, I spent a month in Mexico City . My accommodations, originally a Friends (Quaker) guesthouse, gave its third floor over to s...

 An ad hoc poem I wrote in some time in some where? An exercise with the Tumblewords Project ? No idea. But here it is, about a real-life e...

In winter 2018, I spent a month in Mexico City . My accommodations, originally a Friends (Quaker) guesthouse, gave its third floor over to s...

  Given the bendiness of the word ghost , it pleases me that the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana, hosts the Holy Ghost C...

  In preparing this post, I came upon the sad news that "Lil Kenny," the namesake of Lil Kenny and the Heartbreakers died in 2021 ...

  Vietnamese refugees on boat, circa 1985. Credit: US Navy via wikipedia .   I'm visiting Hanoi in November. I'll be there for a mon...

 In re-visiting my original post, I reconfirmed the librarian thing in the American folklore, and then found this SNL piece, The Librarian ,...

   ... and still do.   Saturday, August 2, 2014 Louisiana: We Still Stop for Carcasses   Dead bluejay, Fran...

   I've had several so-called smart phones (do we still need to call them that?) since my original adoption in 2014. All androids. I...

  Since my original post in 2014, these gentlemen have passed away:  Ray Abshire (full name Emerson Ray Abshire), 2023 D.L. Menard   This t...