R i f f s & P l a i n t s
Here Mark blogs. From time to time. Expect lyric rants and quieter meditations on the matters that concern him and many of us—climate justice, care with language, soul-making, landscape, the lyric, reading and writing and parenting and the art of living well. These are the plaints. The riffs will be similar, but lighter. Short essays and filibusters and letters from Here. And the odd poem.
The Syntax of Wisdom
Never stop learning the intimate ecology of the heart, the divine intricacy of the natural world, and a charged clarity of style (a simplicity not too clear and a clarity not too simple) that is the idiom in which the heart and the world get their Being enacted—life deserves nothing less than our leanest and wisest sentences.