Grief and Change

I have so much to write about.  These thoughts and various words keep zipping in and out of my mind, and I want to give them form and meaning but am feeling pretty incapable. Soothing…I need soothing, and these things called words that pour from my fingers can be like a balm on these hurt [...]

Words

Purveyors of guilt-land
doling it out in measured doses.
‘here’s some for you…
and plenty for you’
shoulds and should nots
shame and blame
there’s plenty to go around.
don’t worry, you’ll get your share.
seeming innocous words
slender snaky tendrils that creep
and spread
then wrap ropey tentacles around vital places
and choke.
armed with pruning shears sharpened
with truth and hope,
i cannot snip away each new shoot.
‘ah, [...]

I like Pressing 1 for English

Thinking about this and what the hell is wrong with pushing 1 for English. This is prompted from several emails that I have received lately that talk about this as a bad thing. (Sometimes just hitting delete is a very good thing. When I don’t, issues like this take up headspace).
 I personally like knowing that I have [...]

Updated Book List

I have updated my book list and and ever nearer to approaching the actual #50 that the list is entitled. Woohoo! I must say, that as I look up likely titles I begin to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of literature out there that I feel I ’should’ have read or should now read! [...]

The Little Prince

is on its way back to the library in just a few moments. I thought it would be nice to share an idea or two first about this very lovely and incredibly sweet story. I wonder how much the story relates to Antoine de Sant-Exupery’s life…how much he felt like the little boy in the [...]

can’t ruin

Apprently despite my best efforts, pumpkin is practically un-ruinable. Last night while I was blogging instead of watching my potts I scalded the pumpkin butter. Slightly burned on the bottom. I didn’t realize it until I had already stirred in some of the burnt bits from the bottom. Unbelievable, it is much much better than [...]

Love of all things Pumpkin

I love pumpkins. Truly I do. I love their orangey-roundness and their autumnal-significance. Fall used to be my favorite season. However for the past few years…ahem…decade or so I have dreaded the fall due to what it portends: that winter and rain and no sun and general dreariness are just around the corner. But truly [...]

A Quote

Oh, another thought before the mindless immersion in a television fantasy-land. I intend to soon begin reading “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf, but needed some mindless sci-fi for a break and am reading a Darkover novel (second read) by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I wanted to share a quote that really spoke to [...]

Tumbling through despairing locales

That is what I have been doing lately. Tumbling through places of despair. I tumble through and in and out of those places much like a dry bristly tumbleweed. Thank God I do tumble back out again. Tumbling through is not much fun. In fact I hate it passionately. The winds of chaos, despair, sadness, or [...]

Running

Okay, so it has taken me 5 days to blog about this and I have almost lost my enthusiasm for blogging about this…but I feel it is important to do so, because it is important to me. Unfortunately life and visitors got in the way of having lots of time (beloved visitors all around…and don’t [...]