Monthly Archives: January 2016

between us

a conversation a melody a history a mystery waiting to be spoken played made, woven a frontier rich in possibility vast opportunity for magic: connection between you and me between each one of us and another a chance to discover and breed … Continue reading

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Like The Wild Creatures We Are

  “You were once wild here.  Don’t let them tame you.”~Isadora Duncan I was sitting at my kitchen table, looking out over the marsh and musing over what direction I should go in artistically.  No answer. Suddenly, the family of … Continue reading

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Epic Life

Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
Surfing 50 foot waves?  How do you train for that, let alone do it?  As a 16-year-old, no less. The fam just watched “Chasing Mavericks” again, based on the true story of Jay Moriarity whose…

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jettison…

  …the obsolete tools and rigid rules …the enervating ….and perseverating ….skepticism and fears without function DITCH THEM …with all our hobbling assumptions yes! overboard dump and shred them unload, discard and shed them liberating heave ho!  all of the cumbersome … Continue reading

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It Matters, We Matter

The man standing next to me taking Jazzercise class today is 92 years old.  He took up Jazzercise a couple of weeks ago.  And rode his bicycle to and from class on this 30-degree morning. Whoa. So, when I felt … Continue reading

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breathing in sepia

  pristine dawns the morning dressed as a tintype of snowy ruggedness of mystical creatures foraging muffled in musk worlds away from the world ripe respiring hushed

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Disentangling

a snap in the line the old, familiar lure weighted, plummeting a fish, thrashes I disentangling cannot come with you this time a crack splits the air between us (a muffle) as the light floods in redemption, releasing our ancient chains breathe

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Chasing Down Our Passion…

 …like it’s the last bus of the night.”  Thank you, Terri Guillemets, for that galvanizing reminder. For it’s been a Mercury in retrograde kind of time around here lately.  Replete with the miscommunications, tie-ups, glitches and misunderstandings associated with Mercury’s … Continue reading

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On Starting Over

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”~Nick Hornby To you, does the phrase “starting over” carry a whiff, or more, … Continue reading

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waiting…

              for my turn… for a sign… for the bus… in vain… for the storm to pass and the sky to clear… in line… alone… to exhale… endlessly… for the light to change… for … Continue reading

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