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All the collages in this post were made by me as part of my process around A’s death. Last year on solstice I posted about the life and death in 2003 of my dear friend Katrina. Her death somehow allowed me to complete a 20 year stint in hospice work. This year on summer solstice, [...]
Don’t live that way. …dress like me …talk like me …think like me …learn like me …worship like me. In short, see the world as I do. Assimilation photo from wikipedia The study of evolution has opened our eyes to the astounding diversity of ways that humans and all animate things adapt to our environments, [...]
They hatched, those chickadee babies, last Saturday, or at least that was the first time I could hear them as I sit on my back porch. By Monday, their requests for ‘I need that bug much more than my brother does, Mother’ were clearer and more insistent. Today, Thursday, it’s a regular cacophony when they [...]
Outwitted He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the will to win We drew a circle and drew him in. – Edwin Markham The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something–a person, [...]
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” This quote from Henry David Thoreau has been on my mind [...]
“I do not see this heart thing as abstract or esoteric. Getting to, living in, healing from, being guided through the heart is an actual state that can be achieved. But it is not a state of mind. It is not an attitude, or an affirmation. Rather it is a state of being. The mind [...]
Here’s my collage for today. It comes from a space of feeling the wind of the spirit of change and new directions moving through my life. Would love to know any reactions, responses you might have. Technorati Tags: grief,collage ]]> Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers [...]
Collage I made in mid May. It is one of a series of 7 that has to do with my friend A’s life and death. This is about the crossing of the River Styx, Charon the ferryman, and also, on this side of the river, about her love of canoeing. A masthead of a Viking [...]
This poem was just published in qarrtsiluni,on online literary journal. It is an experiment in online literary and artistic collaboration. The title comes from an Iñupiaq word that means “sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst.” Yes, that would be my experience of most all of the last 54 years. Getting it [...]
We want to go out and play. Why does the crabapple get to have all the fun? Here in the spring, the half-light, the half-heat, We know we could adjust Even though sheltered pets for now. Invitation to the Poetry Party on Abbey of the Arts. Prompt is Light and Shadow. Technorati Tags: Abbey of [...]
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