1. This is not what I meant by swimming… 2. Having a year-round indoor pool nearby is #1 on my bucket list. 3. Last week I saw a dead possum in the road that someone had attached a balloon to that said ‘Get Well Soon. 4. I dreamt that my dad read a poem that […]
1. I drink a beer every day. But only when I’m at Floydfest. It’s a five-day festival, so do the math. 2. Floydfest Funhouse or too much IPA? 3. Every day at Floydfest is my favorite. Every picture, every scene and every connection with friends felt cherished and full of history this year because it […]
1. I dreamt that I cut off part of my ear (I don’t remember why), more than I meant to. I saved it for a while and then threw it away. Then, in the dream, I was applying to attend a retreat of sorts and was about to be given a bath. I was afraid […]
1. I may use a computer more than ever before, but paper and pen is still my first language. 2. “Fundamentally, the story of God is a story about the human imagination, the human capacity to take seriously the sense that the world that we see before us is not all there is of the […]
1. On Sunday, I briefly got lost in a labyrinth. “It’s just like me not to follow the path,” I said to a friend who was also walking. She replied, “You make your own path,” to which I answered, “No, not really. I think I’m pathless.” 2. I felt that the way we walked the […]
1. Rhododendrons remind me of pink hostess snowballs. 2. I fell in love with the consonant in the middle of my three-letter TM mantra during meditation this morning. 3. My poems are like photographs, moments captured in time that never represent the whole of who I am or of the whole of the story. 4. […]
1. Summer is in full swing. You can tell because there’s usually a wet rinsed bathing suit hanging off the back of a chair on our porch. 2. I’m easily distracted by bluebirds but took time out for strawberry shortcake at Outer Space. 3. Playing Scrabble with friends outside at Outer Space is another sure […]
1. I like to ponder sonder: The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as coined by John Koening, author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. 2. Is that why I […]
1. Poolside: Waiting for the sun to come out from the clouds so I can swim is like waiting for a good song at the Roadhouse so I can dance after two songs in a row didn’t inspire me to. 2. The clouds move in slow motion like the hands of the clock that I […]
1. The words ‘when bras were white’ recently came as a first line of a poem that I had no idea how to finish. Another line came when I was at the Little River Poetry Festival and was looking at my hand while holding a pen and thought ‘I should be buried with a pen […]
1. The RSVP invitation to the family wedding we went to in Massachusetts asked ‘what song would you dance to?’ My first answer was RESPECT by Aretha Franklin. I wasn’t the only one who chose that song, so of course they played it. 2. Number 34 in the 100 Things About Me list on my […]
. – These are 13 of my favorite photos (one video) from my niece Rachael’s wedding in Massachusetts and the first photo of me and my siblings in order of birth as 6. We used to be 9. I’m the oldest now. ______________Wordless Wednesday
