Quotes and Other Good Words 2 Live By
Feral Hogs
*I have to share this because it made me laugh, and in these uncertain, insane times we need laughs, peeps. Need. A take on Mary Oliver's wonderful Wild Geese, which - as a reminder, begins, You don't have to be good... this dark laugh is from Irish satirical poet,...
Some of the Many Things You-Know-Who Has Said About Women
*Borrowed from my favorite weekly magazine: The Week. This little rag aggregates opinion, book recommendations, cartoons, editorials, local, federal and world news, film reviews and so much more from every side of an issue, which - in this polarized world of ours - is...
Writing, Blogging, Reading & Yard Work
"The real writer is one /who really writes. Talent / is an invention like phlogiston / after the fact of fire. / Work is its own cure. You have to / like it better than being loved." - Marge Piercy Today I am blogging and editing old pieces I have returned to because...
Earth Day Thoughts & Prayers
Happy Earth Day. Love your mother, peeps. "Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I...
Scarlett O’Hara, Blanche DuBois, & Emma, Lady Hamilton
“All of us, all the time, on the line, end of the road, edge of town. We revise and we reconsider. We are all of us heading toward oblivion all the time. We can re-shape and alter - through art, through religion, through love, through sex, through demented denial -...
self lullaby
#all things must perish in anguish at some point #at least we're chained to the same burning boat #and so are the badgers their dazed expressions #the deer their dignified innocence bambi #we've come through before we'll come through this too yh #there's always red...
Absence
I visited the place where we last met.Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended,The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet;There was no sign that anything had endedAnd nothing to instruct me to forget. The thoughtless birds that shook out of the...
All My Life
I have not posted enough pictures of Diego of late, because I am not taking as many as I did, for a variety of reasons, chief among them is that I love looking at my handsome boy, but grabbing the phone to memorialize him? Must I? And of late, my favorite thing has...
Eric Swalwell, & the Art & Science of Nobody
*How many times have I had the exact experience outlined below by Rebecca Solnit - that of being a nobody in the situation, a woman whose lived experience does not matter because there is no man to witness and confirm it, or because the experience - bad - was at the...