write-your-own friday : ancestors
My friend and creative partner, David Robinson, told me about a story prompt that he teaches. It is a simple prompt from which much can emerge. Partner that with a recent email and photograph about her parents from an amazing woman, Celeste Rast, who is part of our Life is …
thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, a few links, including one to you-know-who. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced it for me.) mind :: my brain and your I think we might be a sleep-deprived nation. (Thanks to M. …
poetry wednesday : now that I can cry I will sing.
If I Sing If I sing, I weep. If I sing joy, even sing joy, I weep. If I weep, if I weep, if cries splatter from me, if I sputter snot and spit down my chin, my shirt, your shirt, if I shake and shake until you fear I'll …
found-art tuesday : friendship is an art
Friendship is an art. It spans the ages. And continents. It is found, uncovered, nurtured. Many thanks to Elina Rodriguez for sharing these beautiful photos she took of Tess with her favorite David at the beautiful Bend of Ivy Lodge when my family arrived at the conclusion of our recent …
mindful monday : baba nam kevalam
It would be hard to fully explain this past weekend's Life is a Verb retreat. An extraordinary gathering of people, a gorgeous space and weather, a shared intention to be more mindful and present, small rocks with messages from the heart left for us to find, birthday cakes, food by …
Send him a holiday, his last.
I believe we can rock this little boy's world, you and I and all the people we know all around the world. I checked on Snopes; this one is for real: 5-yr old Noah Biorkman is in the last stages of neuroblastoma cancer. His family is celebrating Christmas next week …
thinking thursday.
Every Thursday, just a few links I've discovered, things I'm thinking about. And, of course, a link somewhere to a man who lives near Paris just because he exists. (Where I can follow the serendipitous thread I followed to get there, I'll include a thanks to the person who surfaced …
poetry wednesday : poetic bloodlines, a word’s worth
Poetry has a job to do, a bloodline to further. Poets teach people and take back the world. They must be about something. One night, God came to me in a dreamWith a scheme that seemed to be out of this worldHe approached me and opened his robeAnd showed me …
found-art tuesday : shadow
They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Star Richés Find art in shadow. As Sven Nykvist has written, "Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft." Find light. Find …
Vote. Or shut up.
(photo of a fellow air traveler at 37,000 feet en route to Nebraska, June 2009)
