Above Yosemite Valley

This blog was started as a means to learn to write about my experiences; my guides: William and Kim Stafford, Annie Dillard, Jorge Borges, and Italo Calvino. A writing workshop with Kim at Leland Ironworks in March was revelatory. Other authors will follow. By writing to post on line, I forced myself to spend more time editing my work. As I look back over the past few weeks, I see lots of room for improvement. I think shorter posts work better. I like ideas that are expressed with economy of words.

Although not always obvious, the theme, against edges, seems to have been sustained. The challenge remains; at edges, where there are no barriers, we always seem to create our own. Moreover, it is the imperceptible barriers that are the most perplexing.   This then is another reason for writing; to discover those barriers that define edges that we did not know existed.