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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Roller coasters are supposed to be fun

Great day yesterday, a milestone accomplished in the old novel re-visioned... a friend--the only one who really could--collaborating, letting me paw around in his brain and senses... A friend chance-met looked at me from her own place of happiness and told me I was sparkling... She has known me many years, though we rarely meet, and knows how different this is. News from youngest, now 24 and half the continent away, will not be coming home to this home for Christmas. With his father--with whom... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Running hot and cold...

It may be cold here, but at least we have sunny days, short though they may be... A lot of you across the US are getting the great snow, and the arctic cold. Remember to fill the polar bear feeders with suet... lots and lots of suet! Meanwhile, the heart here is intermittently warm... Did I say 'heart'? I meant 'hearth'-- but 'heart' is true, too. Sometimes, after an age of low-grade, barely-sufficient fuel, the heart gets lucky, and taps into the good stuff. Sure, there is gunk in the pipes,... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Wind is from the north...

It blows through my open window... so do the cats, so it remains open. I also love to sleep with the freshest of air and a cold nose while all the rest of me is warm and cozy under sufficient covers. But this morning, it is making it a challenge--to cross the room from toasty bed to the door into the rest of the house which will be at least a modicum warmer. I bought bamboo thermals yesterday and will not be free of them until April, like a mountain-man, if this goes on... But they are rather... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Transitions

Thanks so much, all of you who have read here and commented! The photos in Starbuck's, yesterday's sale of a framed piece at the small gallery I've consigned a few things in, the array of remarkable and inspiring people I have been meeting lately... Oh, even stepping on the scale and discovering I'm 5 lbs under the plateau I've been stuck at for... let's just say quite some time... All this sparkling, tingling energy I feel-- It is not what has gotten me where I am, but what I am finding in that... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

hanging around Starbuck's

These are two of the photos now hanging on the new local artists wall at the Starbuck's down the road. I can't find the third one to show you in my photobucket albums, but it is also a water abstract like these... a little more abstract, being of water rushing over rocks, and less clearly defined as water and rocks. That one is more about the bright glint of sunlight touching the veils of rushing grey glacial-silt laden river waters. mood: quite quite pleased! Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

It was not my intention...

...to be awake before 5 this morning, nor to be moving furniture on a day traditionally about shifting turkeys and taters and generally making a day-long feast from some kind of notable breakfast, through a casually foraged lunch, to The Big Deal towards evening. It was not my intent to get 4 hours of sleep every night for the past week or so... but for some of us, sleep comes when it will, not on demand. I did not drop a branch on the roof above my bed, creating an opening for the rain to come... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Making home

The decision has been made... discussed as to reasons, options and desired outcomes. It is by no means a complete picture. As I sit in the comfort I am used to, resolve dissipates... as it has before. I know that dynamic: it has dominated this scene forever. This is the first element that needs to be addressed: how to maintain the resolve, to manifest the thought-form. Baby steps are better than none, and so that is what I am looking for: what small things can I do, to bolster decisions and... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

tomorrow!

Charlie will be home for lunch... and will stay a week through his dad's birthday and Thanksgiving. Yay! Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Why we keep him

Got this email from my son in response to the query of what he plans to herd with the pair of 10-foot bullwhips he wants for Christmas. I guessed dinosaurs, and was on the money: It only works on certain dinosaurs of course. Maiosaurs, Edmontosaurs, Corythosauruses, and such. You would think Iguanadons, but they have these pretty nasty thumbspikes they are not afraid of using if they get pissed off or feel threatened. And you always have to watch out and make sure you don't create a stampede.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

WARNING: Don't Go There!

DO NOT VISIT MY UNIVERSE BLOG TODAY No kidding--some sort of malware is triggering a warning and shutting down my internet connection when I go to write or read the latest post on that blog. I have emailed admins here and also copied 10 pages of prior posts, in case the matter calls for shutting down this oldest of my blogs. But not that last one. The post is of a poem I copy/pasted from my own files on my own home computer, and I have no idea how it may have gotten infected with anything. It... Sign in to see full entry.

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