Been blogging now for just four days.

I’ll tell you what

has come to me.

Technology!

Up to now it has seemed remote,

unknowable,

and, need I quote,

omnipresent

and omniscient too, but Culture’s god

gave me the nod.

What can I do?

I’m in a stew.

                                -JDG

Synchronicities, those unexplainable, meaningful coincidences, always give me pause.  Just a few days after I started this blog, I came upon these lines from Reeve Lindbergh’s FORWARD FROM HERE : “I don’t think that the details of writing, or of speaking, either, need to be titillating on the one hand, or tedious on the other. I think the details on the written page need to be there for their own interesting sake, and to hold a place for all that is real in our lives, minute by minute and molecule by molecule.”

I can’t help but think that the Universe called in the big guns, via Reeve Lindbergh, to insure I had a clear sense of what aholdingplace was to be – neither titillating nor tedious – but a place for all that is real in my life and perhaps in yours. How’s that for a mission statement?

On my land, overlooking a large pond, is a shed which inspired the following poem and this blog. Writing the poem made me realize I needed a holding place for the work in process which is me. I invite you to join me in visiting this holding place and to bring with you the work in process that is you.

The Shed

Before even a road was laid

the shed was there

nestled amidst

tall pines, scrub trees;

a holding place for lawn tractor,

shovels, hoes, rakes,

and a woman,

who, mowing done,

rested and watched two great blue

herons soar and

nest, their place found,

hers yet to be.

                                               -JDG