We’re enjoying our annual “five days of winter,” as my gardener friend Judy puts it. The other day, in the rain, I visited the L.A. Arboretum It was cold, raining, and quiet. The very few folks wandering the 125 acre-grounds besides me were swaddled in down parkas and scarves. Wanderer, your footsteps arethe road, and nothing […]
ANTONIO MACHADO
WHEN I AM ALONE
When I am alonehow close my friends are;when I am with themhow distant they are! –Antonio Machado, from “Fourteen Poems Chosen from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs”