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Getting there—to the habit part! I didn’t write this list yesterday, but kept thinking as I went to sleep that there was something undone…so, the practice is working on me! I’m being ‘done’. Here’s a smattering of some few things learned this past week: 1. A reflective birthday is a gift to one’s self, wrapped [...]
Three little stories on one prompt: migration John Day Fossil Beds, John Day, Oregon 1. diagonal pilgrimage across the chenille throw pillow dust mites on tour wonder what they pack in their overnight bags? 2. baby elk down in the canyon bed moving with the herd being taught how to bugle by bull what IS [...]
Coin leaves strewn across the path Snowball berry orbs on stick arms Water fronds oscillating like a mermaid’s hair Titanic stance on lodgepole bridge An eternity of whitewater bounding by All balancing My rebirth into nothingness. ]]> Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]
This post is written today, November 26, on my 55th birthday, and is is honor of the other 3 beings that I know who share this birthday. Zoya and I dreamed this blog connection up, but Gusti and Leslie don’t get off without a little public exposure. To have this particular year’s birthday land on [...]
Some of you may remember a post I made in May of this past year called Douglas firs were our Sanctuary. It was about a remarkable conversation with a friend who was terminally ill and choosing to hasten her death in accordance with the Oregon Death with Dignity Act of 1997. What I didn’t put [...]
Third week running. But is it a habit yet—there’s the question! Here are the ten things, in no particular order: using my heart as a barometer and mediator of a tense situation is a much better thing having tea and a long chat, with blankets over our legs, and Geronimo in the middle, is just [...]
Wait. Hold the phone. Did Michelangelo take one of those Inland Passage tours? Had a hard time getting to Vancouver from Rome in the 1500’s? Maybe he just dreamed the scene above and here came the hands of man and god, voila. The creative process is like that. What I think of as inspiration may [...]
One of the best things about blogging to a prompt site is that you begin to know the other people who also post to the site and a relationship is formed. So it is with Geraldine. She is an avid writer, vegetarian cook and photographer. I’m delighted that Geraldine is interested in having a guest [...]
Second in this series–I am beginning to feel the practice of it. When I’m walking the dog, cooking a meal, washing my hair, I’m wondering ‘what in this experience may be one of those precious ten things I’m learning this week’? Not that of course I can’t learn more than ten. But one has to [...]
Struggling to become incarnated embodied really live in this body and not my always-editing mind, on what grounds do I engage what re-incarnation might entail? The closest I can get to understanding reincarnation is making art of of found pieces of what is otherwise described as junk. A little of dis a little of dat [...]
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