(t)here is the great earth…

cup&saucer

thanks for visiting my corner of the internet.  this old site is all fulls up.  i’ve moved my blogging practice over to https://hereisthegreatearth.wordpress.com

please click over – you’ll find new pots, old pots, wet pots, broke pots and the usual menagerie of inspirations that make me make the work.

all my best,

steven

‘Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.’~George Santayana.

Qiu Zhijie
(Chinese, 1969)
Heart Sutra
2001

ink on paper

more on the artists website: http://www.qiuzhijie.com/worksleibie/calligraphy/e-xinjing.htm

Vespers…

when it’s over…

The Bangles
Syria Mosque Arena
Pittsburgh, PA; 1986

font

tortoise bowl

houston

kurt

thistle w. Budai

iron lamp w. tealight ~ china

metta

italy

jug by виолета керемидчиева ~from the Orr studio collection

DFW

thegood’olgratefuldead

sarvangasana

for whatever reason –

i assumed the capacity of this weBlog was something near the infinite.  (how could we run into the end of cyberspace?)

but  – it seems – WordPress has it’s limits and/or (at 6or7 years in – wants some $$$).

so fresh images will not be forthcoming on this platform.

&butso –

this evening

yawl get a new old poem from the pen of E.D.

& a selection of old images that the platform allows for republication –

+ the previous prose that have been recently endangered in these parts:

——

• ‘Apology for Her
  Be rendered by the Bee
  Herself, without a Parliament
  Apology for Me’

~Dickenson

——

this night pierces me like a sword

the worst part

it’snotevenfair – or’ourWorld&ourReality’

experiencingloss –

backingup on DFW for myriad reasons tonite. what i’ve always appreciated about David’s life was his commitment to an effort toward ‘T’rue sincerity (w/style). A heart as well as a mind @WORK…:

or ‘thatwasmyexperimentw/tellingtheTruth’

Ladies&Gentelmen-Susanna&thehops

H/M

onthevenndiagramofmyloveforyou…

magic under ware

chudclay

radha_krishna_in_moonlit_light

Cy {twombly}

bestfriends

Lauren Gallaspy

Hitopadesha

afteralways&neverthesame

Jeff Kaller

Beloved Teacher – thich nhat hanh

sutta jars

Betty Woodman

DFW: being honest