poetry wednesday : for the ones who have etched themselves in the laugh lines
Washing the Elephant Isn’t it always the heart that wants to wash the elephant, begging the body to do it with soap and water, a ladder, hands, in tree shade big enough for the vast savannas of your sadness, the strangler fig of your guilt, the cratered full moon’s light …
found-art tuesday : in the going, and in the doing.
I've known Amy McCracken for a long time, my whole life, through these pages of 37days. She reads this blog, and sends me the most amazing letters in the mail. She is one of my favorite writers, and storytellers, in the whole wide world. The woman can write. Last Wednesday …
mindful monday : listen to women’s voices
Today is International Women's Day. A day to hear women's voices and to remember that we need to hear them always, every day, each one. Each voice, each day. There is so, so much more work to be done. So much celebration to be had. And on this International Women's …
sunday sounds : our lives have soundtracks
Randy Newman, I Will Go Sailing No More//Toy Story Our lives have soundtracks. What's yours? Who is composing it? You. I talked to Mr Brilliant this morning about "sunday sounds" and the Oscars. "Do you know who Alfred Newman was?" he asked. He sent me an email a few minutes …
simple action saturday : open
I passed this office in the hotel-under-glass known as the Gaylord National near Washington, D.C., this week. I think they're closed. They were unamused when I asked. In fact, they looked pretty unamused at everything. Hence, the signs. Big, bold, closed. Not once, but many times closed. CLOSED. CLOSED. CLOSED. …
Evidently, I’m royalty. Evil, but royalty.
Kathryn Ruth Schuth is dangerous with Photoshop. She sent this photo of a most familiar looking Red Queen with a note: "proximity matters." Indeed it does. Met a table full of women in Northern Virginia for dinner tonight, followed by the new Tim Burton film, Alice in Wonderland. What a …
thinking thursday.
mind :: my brain and yours Well done, Heidi Durrow, well done. Bill Maher don't know Buddhism. Houston, we have space sushi. body :: my place and yours Ever since I had that incredible INCREDIBLE cauliflower dish at a restaurant in Canton, Ohio (I am waving to you, Jylene and …
poetry wednesday : the dying are such acrobats
Trapeze See how the first dark takes the city in its arms and carries it into what yesterday we called the future. O, the dying are such acrobats. Here you must take a boat from one day to the next, or clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand. …
found-art tuesday : irish delight
I think it's no secret that I love accents, Scottish, Kiwi, Aussie, Irish, South African may well be tops among them. (And yours, of course. I love yours. I could listen to you talk all day long). Adore accents. Make me Scottish and make me happy. So imagine my absolute …
