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Sam Baker
Jun 17, 20210 min read
The miracle of feathers
photograph of fallen mockingbird feathering
Sam Baker
Jun 16, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Jun 16, 20210 min read
memory
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. -Jorge Luis Borges memory black and...
Sam Baker
Jun 15, 20211 min read
Borges
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. -Jorge Luis Borges
Sam Baker
Jun 14, 20211 min read
The unification of everything
A Dodge Ram 2500 weights 6 or 7 thousand pounds. It is a heavy duty pickup that is made for towing cargo that weighs 10 thousand pounds...
Sam Baker
Jun 14, 20213 min read
Sam Baker
Jun 9, 20210 min read
Moth
ANGELS You might see an angel anytime and anywhere. Of course you have to open your eyes to a kind of second level, but it’s not really...
Sam Baker
Jun 7, 20212 min read
eye of mockingbird
The wild flowers I planted are dormant or dead or became part of the food chain. I thought most if not all were lost but I have hope. I...
Sam Baker
Jun 1, 20211 min read
Glass Eyes
Compassion is the basis of morality. -Arthur Schopenhauer Glass Eyes
Sam Baker
May 8, 20211 min read
The Way
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. -Marie Curie Numbers. Numbers.
Sam Baker
May 6, 20211 min read
Sappo
"May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve." - Sappho
Sam Baker
Apr 28, 20211 min read
the peace of wild things
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my...
Sam Baker
Apr 13, 20211 min read
W. S. Merwin
Sheep Passing Mayflies hover through the long evening of their light and in the winding lane the stream of sheep runs among the shadows...
Sam Baker
Apr 13, 20211 min read
the important thing
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing — and keeping the...
Sam Baker
Apr 13, 20211 min read
numberless
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless...
Sam Baker
Apr 13, 20211 min read
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. on Joseph Heller
True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter...
Sam Baker
Apr 13, 20211 min read
the last day of the world
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree -W. S. Merwin
Sam Baker
Apr 9, 20211 min read
to get me here
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here. - W.S. Merwin
Sam Baker
Apr 3, 20211 min read
each stone
The story of each stone leads back to a mountain. -W.S. Merwin charcoal copy of a Picasso drawing
Sam Baker
Apr 3, 20211 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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