I am Bill I am growing I love you all, that I’m knowing and beyond that there is mystery and hope you are each quite like me yet very differently with your own special ways to grow and grope So I’ll try again, my friends, to watch my mouth, my means and ends, as we … I am Bill…
Golden Tree, December 12, 2010 there is a glorious golden tree still so alive for me these many years since first I glimpsed its shimmering, glimmering glory that I know it will glow and grow ever so long after all the leaves fall long after all the trees fall long after all This poem has … Golden Tree
Bill wrote this poem “it must have been in the 60’s.” I recorded him reading it in 2008, then added the images to create this video.
Bill distributed these four poems on a flier in March of 1991. His introductions are in above each. Dear friends, Poetry has been good for me lately. This first day of spring seems right for collecting a few and sharing them with some of you. I owe some of you written copies of one or … Four Poems — distributed 3-20-1991
I retired April 1st [1990]. For years I planned to begin retirement with a walking bridge between the world of work and a world beyond work. I would push a mail cart from San Francisco to the United Nations in support of peace and the U.N., from April 25 to October 24. But on April … Retirement and Unretirement (An April 1st Tale) 1990
Ogunquit, 11-6-1993 The museum is closed, winterized. Benches and some of the sculpture garden critters are wrapped snugly in blue plastic, cocoons, hibernating until spring, with here and there a head, tail or toenail showing. Some statues, pieces of scupture, have been released from their concrete anchorages and hidden away somewhere in deeper hibernation. The … Five Ogunquit Poems, 1993
A wonderful horn has the unicorn. We hope he/she didn’t have it before he/she was born. Bill & Mary Lee, March 1989
I have a rosy view out to Talmapais and the Golden Gate where the mountain meets the sea. The Sleeping Princess may yet swing free out through the GAte to an ocean of emotion with a peaceful bent. Perhaps all of time has been well spent. A single rose a single word a single silent … A have a rosy view
Located at the University of Calilfornia printing office on Oxford Street at Center St, Berkeley, CA. The plaque reads: Presented to the University of California Printing Services Printer of the Signatory Copies of the Charter of the United Nations and Statue of the International Court of Justice Recognized by United Nations Association of the United … Plaque Honoring printing of Signatory copies of UN Charter in 1945
Memory Hikes Through Marin “A Fairy-Land of Moon-Light” By Calvin Roy Trampleasure [circa March 1917] It was a beautiful day in mid-September. We had been to the top of Twin Peaks in the morning, just by way of an appetizer for’ the trip we had planned for later in the day. The air had been … A Fairy-Land of Moon-Light