Bury my heart at Wounded Knee..

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth..

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world..

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds wi….

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champm….

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undiv….

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor ….

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways....

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom..

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds..

Life was a storm to wander through..

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unf….

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why..

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have den….

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was resc….

Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubm….

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page..

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom..

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in..

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory..

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name..