Dreams, floaters, peripheral visions, third eye sightings, almost theres, ghosts, cherished illusions, flotsam, table scraps and little dancing particles
Dec 21, 2009
Winster Solstice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Op3Sz3lPM&feature=related
Light a candle
add wood to the fire
pour a cup of cider
bang the drum
watch the bonfires
count your blessings
embrace the darkest of nights
and "burn the clocks"
welcome the light
Dec 13, 2009
Dec 9, 2009
Smell of Snow
Nov 28, 2009
Greenman
Nov 26, 2009
Thanksgiving 09
Nov 22, 2009
Detachment
armed with layers of connections
duties, responsibilities, shoulds
fully weighed down
wondering what detaching unleashes
naked of the chains, what follows
would one float away like a
freefloating dream?
like dandelion fluff
Nov 9, 2009
Crow Woman revisted
Nov 7, 2009
November
Coping
check election results
get celica to the shop
call my senator
worry about health care bill
research Green River flooding
create something in studio
find new sources of protein
cry over over Ft Hood shootings
practice serenity
be transcendent?
Nov 5, 2009
Tea
Sep 29, 2009
Into the New . what next?
the new scary gestalt
For Strong Women
For Strong Women
A strong woman is a woman standing
on tiptoe and lifting a barbell
while trying to sing "Boris Godunov."
A strong woman is a woman at work
cleaning out the cesspool of the ages,
and while she shovels, she talks about
how she doesn't mind crying, it opens
the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up
develops the stomach muscles, and
she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
A strong woman is a woman in whose head
a voice is repeating, I told you so,
ugly, bad girl, bitch, nag, shrill, witch,
ballbuster, nobody will ever love you back,
why aren't you feminine, why aren't
you soft, why aren't you quiet, why aren't you dead?
A strong woman is a woman determined
to do something others are determined
not be done. She is pushing up on the bottom
of a lead coffin lid. She is trying to raise
a manhole cover with her head, she is trying
to butt her way through a steel wall.
to be made say, hurry, you're so strong.
A strong woman is a woman bleeding
inside. A strong woman is a woman making
herself strong every morning while her teeth
loosen and her back throbs. Every baby,
a tooth, midwives used to say, and now
every battle a scar. A strong woman
is a mass of scar tissue that aches
when it rains and wounds that bleed
when you bump them and memories that get up
in the night and pace in boots to and fro.
A strong woman is a woman who craves love
like oxygen or she turns blue choking.
A strong woman is a woman who loves
strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly
terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong
in words, in action, in connection, in feeling;
she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf
suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she
enacts it as the wind fills a sail.
What comforts her is others loving
her equally for the strength and for the weakness
from which it issues, lightning from a cloud.
Lightning stuns. In rain, the clouds disperse.
Only water of connection remains,
flowing through us. Strong is what we make
each other. Until we are all strong together,
a strong woman is a woman strongly afraid.
by Marge Piercy
Aug 30, 2009
Late Bloomers
Aug 26, 2009
For Ted 8/24/2009
Aug 25, 2009
Cle Elum
Darkest blue night sky