So it’s about two weeks since starting this thing, this website and, at least for me there’s beginning to energe some sense of what it’s about, it’s point, and perhaps in a funny way, the point of me ,the point of my existing (maybe this will prove true for some of you as well). First [...]

2Helga@80 by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Is there a mountain taller than 80?
Could you show it to me, please?
For instance, take Mount Everest:
pretty tall, I’d say, except
when it’s at its top, or near its top
can it begin to talk
of having loved,
of having brought into this world
a single child?
And sure, the view will take away
one’s breath and more:
the tracks [...]

I have set out from that port
(years ago now)
with what I knew
in my Spanish heart
to be the most progressive
thinking (for instance that
the world was not flat.)
I have sailed with
my courageous crew,
using the most modern
navigational gear available
only slowly learning it was
not up to the task which
demanded even more of my men
in those extremely tricky seas.
I, and [...]

Stephen Gyllenhaal