Never has anyone complained about the neighbors so beautifully. (This is Jeffers, if you couldn’t guess.)
Snow trillium. First flower I’ve seen in the woods this year.
JeffersCast Episode Two: “Hurt Hawks”
This episode includes a reading of “Hurt Hawks,” followed by a few comments.
Proof of concept for some shoe boxes I’m making for Rachel.
Letters with @jsonbecker, week three
This is week three of a continuing series of letters with Jason Becker. Week one is here and week two is here. Dear Jason, Your description of Tulum was very interesting. It’s the first I’ve heard of it. And, yes, I can see what you mean by it being a contradiction. I like the idea of lifting people out of poverty; at the same time, it sounds like the usual corporate greenwashing.
Got my tickets for the Old Gods of Appalachia live show in Indianapolis!
Woodworking notes 2/14/2023
Finally completed the stool (using this Steve Ramsey video). The build was delayed first by illness and then because I decided to redo the legs. I picked up a shop vac this week but my problem now is finding an adaptor to connect it to the dust collection port on my table saw. It’s proving more difficult than I would have imagined. Next up: a small bookcase.
Rachel’s seedlings are doing great!
Licensed driver!
Poetry is a bodily art
Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry: The theory of this guide is that poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art. The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing. Moreover, there is a special intimacy to poetry because, in this idea of the art, the medium is not an expert’s body, as when one goes to the ballet: in poetry, the medium is the audience’s body.