photograph by z1784.
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lately Carole King has been all over the place. I saw an interview with [...]
photo by steve_gobeil.
Old wood makes me think of the basics: wood stoves, candlelight or kerosene lanterns, horse-drawn wagons, working the land, and going to school a one-room schoolhouse.
My dad grew up like that. He lived in rural Colorado and grew up on a dairy farm. He worked the [...]
photo by wheresmymind.
I’m having one of these days…when I just want to let loose and fly away, fly into the barren stratosphere and soar over the lands.
I want to be unencumbered today. I don’t want to have any responsibilities beyond my beagle and me.
I want to be free.
I don’t [...]
photo by helveticaneue.
Wine Daze
Juice of grapes
thick and red.
Vineyards of summer
steaming under a hot sun.
Sonoma
Napa
The words roll off of the tongue
as the rich wine they produce
flows over the palate.
Days full of promise,
cool air flowing from mountains to valleys,
following rows of grape vines
wound around tall stakes.
Culmination:
Dinner
cooling evening air
water flows nearby.
Wine is served.
Aturdida de [...]
photo by dickory-dock.
Christopher Marlowe, in Doctor Faustus, when referring to Helen of Troy, wrote “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.”
Even today I can’t imagine launching one thousand ships into battle.
Can you [...]
photos by manymuses.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
~ virginia woolf ~
This room has a classic feel to me. Someone who cares about detail lives in this room. Someone who pays attention to the aesthetic roams these floors.
virginia [...]
Photo by UrbanTiki.
In order to continue blogging on a more regular schedule, I’m going to be taking images from other peoples’ streams on flickr and using them for fodder…much like my “found journals” of yesteryear (for those of you who remember those).
I want to push myself creatively as a [...]
I haven’t written in a while. I think I’ve been going through some transitions in my life. I’ve been thinking about a lot of things.
When I was having an issue in a relationship, my brother told me that I shouldn’t be chasing men. He said he understood why I did it in [...]
