La Terra a Piedi 21 October 9, 2025 I’m in Baltimore on a chilly morning touched by autumn. Close to me sit musicians who talk with many gestures and laugh constantly.“I have a lot of goals—I have an Excel file with my goals, and also my gigs,” one of them says.My fingers are cold and … Read more
Still Life in Baltimore Mark making with a Small Person–Paul Klee would approve! #dada #surrealism
earth on foot 20 2 October 2025 Mary T Watts, an American naturalist, poet, illustrator and daughter of Danish immigrants, wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune on September 25, 1963. In it, she implored the city to repurpose an abandoned rail line into a multi-use path (“bulldozers are drooling”, she wrote). This letter eventually … Read more
earth on foot 19 25 Sept 25 We, a haphazard group of commuters, head toward Newark, through Philadelphia, en route to New York. My seat mate is long-legged. To my surprise, the hiss I thought was an air leak at the window is music through his headphones. What is it, I wonder? Oasis? Bach? Enya? … Read more
Earth on foot 18 18 September 2025 A lithe squirrel, hesitant, makes his way over red bricks. An acorn fills his tiny mouth. I see him a moment later, far up the pine in the neighbor’s yard. I thought I was alone here, but there’s an awful lot going on around me, come to think … Read more
Earth on foot 17 September 11, 2025 At a cafe, Baltimore, Maryland, near Johns Hopkins University, 11am, cool, cloudy Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. … Read more
earth on foot 16 4 Sept 2025 Crickets’ song, a cool breeze through the open window, and an occasional peal of laughter: I’m back in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, where even the dogs are considerate. And if they aren’t, their owners warn, “She’s a waving dog,” and wave at their puppy to demonstrate. “Not … Read more
earth on foot 14 21 august 2025 I’m thinking of England. Worton Park, Oxford, specifically, where our group stayed, cooked, and celebrated a special wedding. One morning, I awoke to see a tee shirt drying in the sunshine outside of our window. Since I love sleuthing, I surmised that S., David’s cousin, had already taken … Read more
earth on foot 12 13 augusto 2025 Busy squirrels overhead somewhere in the dogwood tree, nibbling seeds—can’t tell precisely what, but I hear their sharp cracks. Soon I’ll be in my gardening attire—green slip-on shoes, green gloves to match, the straw traveling hat my mother-in-law got me—on a sultry summer day, but now, after a … Read more
Koblenz to Baltimore. earth on foot 11 On our last day in Germany, I took the IC train an hour from Mainz to Koblenz. I’d been told the night before, at a beer hall notable for its 5-foot-tall beer steins, that it was a lovely city with lots of history and great apple strudel. On … Read more