Spring | Spring
May.20.2013
Admittedly, it was none too early this morning when I saw a sight that I believe I have actually never seen, though it is fabled the world over.
Standing on the front stoop to test the air (and the air failed with its chill demeanour - it is a nice November day out there and not mid-May) I...
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May.08.2013
A few years ago, I caught a cold that wouldn’t go away. The runny nose left me dehydrated and exhausted and was accompanied by sneezes so powerful that my eyes would explode like volcanos of hot, mascara’ed saltiness while twin rivers of black gook oozed down my face.
“Are...
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May.02.2013
Where have I been, people keep asking. Right here, it turns out, giving birth to two books I’ve been incubating for many months. If you’re on my e-list, you received a notice yesterday that my two new books, The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future and The...
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Apr.28.2013
(I think that this is a good beginning for a children's poem. :)
one small beeelicits such gleefor he announcesthe arrival of spring
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Apr.20.2013
One day as I was driving, all of the trees seemed
to come to life. The air became vibrant as the wind
blew through the trees, and I could feel the energy
and nature all around me, lifting me up with the
wind. And, for the first time since the tragedies,
I was able to take complete deep breaths,...
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Apr.19.2013
The Gardens in Our Hearts
A neglected human being who is starved for compassion and love will wither and die, just as a garden will when it isn’t watered or tended. If we nourish and feed each other’s hearts, we will be rewarded...
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Apr.17.2013
The day, like the day before, was blustery and cold. The snow continued to fall, lightly on the north wind, from morning through the evening. Although it didn’t stick on the ground long, it kept on coming.
This, my friends, is springtime in Montana. This is April.
There are no cherry blossoms, no...
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Apr.16.2013
Fatigue consumes me. I slept for eight hours last night, woke up, ate breakfast, and promptly fell back asleep.
I reawakened just in time to drink two large bottles of yummy barium sulfate, drive a mile to Kaiser where I received a CT scan. I was home an hour later and immediately fell asleep.
The...
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Apr.02.2013
Spring is a sketchy business where I come from. It comes and goes with the day, one day warm, one day cool again, like a boat trying to right itself in choppy water. Then you can wake up on some random Tuesday and not even see that the boat is under full sail, gliding out across a calm...
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Mar.31.2013
When we were little kids, my Mother developed a little practice that she still uses to this day. Whenever she felt the need to have some space (in hindsight, I kinda think she'd do this whenever she just wanted a nap), she would go to her bedroom and close the door. Just before she closed the door...
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