August 30th, 2007
“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
~Rainer Mairie Rilke
Month: August 2007
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self portrait challenge
Self Portrait Challenge
August Challenge: Self portrait with pattern
Life pattern in progress.
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Another Xangaversary!
(pass the cake and the beer!)
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I cannot believe another blog year has passed so quickly for me! I look at my older posts and remember that moment; the way I felt while writing. I am so grateful that I do this, it gives me a chance to examine who I am right now and to re-examine it later.
And blogging gives me the chance to know YOU and view life through your eyes and hear your voice speaking about your days and I am much richer for it.
Here are a few of my favorite posts from this year:
Ernest Borgnine, Eunuchs & Pumpkins
Another Place & Time: Our Strawbale House
This Makes Me Far Happier Than It Should
In browsing through this past year of blogging, I found that my favorite posts came from the first half of the year and not the second. I think I am not as inspired lately and can see it in my writing, can feel it in my expression. But I am grateful for knowing this as it speaks to me and tells me “something is changing here”.
i like living with my eyes open, even though i don’t always understand what i see.
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August
When the blackberries hang
swollen in the woods, in the brambles
nobody owns, I spend
all day among the high
branches, reaching
my ripped arms, thinking
of nothing, cramming
the black honey of summer
into my mouth; all day my body
accepts what it is. In the dark
creeks that run by there is
this thick paw of my life darting among
the black bells, the leaves; there is
this happy tongue.
~Mary Oliver
sigh.
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A Revealing Dream
(a self portrait, of sorts)
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Last night, I dreamt I was dying. In the dream, I had uterine cancer and had 5 weeks to live.
I cried and cried and cried.
Then, I sat down with my closest friends and family members and told them one by one.
“Oh no!”, they said, “What do you need? What can I do?”
I responded, “Let me take pictures of you so you will have a part of me to keep”
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Peas Be With You
(and other stuff)
love me tendril, love me true
peas enjoy roller derby
I made my first wet/needle felted mitten today
onions love onions
brain spew
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~Trevor took the kids for an overnight at camp so i might have some time alone
~I am felting, reading, walking in the woods and playing in the garden
~ I feel the winds changing today and can smell fall in the air
~ I am wishing we had more unschooled free range children to play with, Jesse would really love that once school starts
~I am thinking of Trevor’s birthday, he turns 40 on Monday and we are having a little party for him.
~ I am thinking in bits and pieces about life and time and love and fear and joy.
~I am watching our windmill spin in the breeze and I am grateful.
The End.
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Every Day, A Gift
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
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My Dog Loves To Sing
Lucy, Singing
good dog.
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