Consider the passage of the snail. See beauty in the simplest movements. This week’s project is a challenge to myself: begin work on a long poem. No topic given, just that it should be long – pages & pages long. October’s challenge: a mixed media piece with the impulse and inspiration coming from 3 words: […]
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coming in from the field
I’ve been out in the field, way out in a space of grieving. On July 11 my father passed away. He had been ill for a few months and I travelled to see him several times. The last time I visited him he was already half way gone in a coma at a hospice in […]
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The month of April gave us a new granddaughter and brought news of my father’s illness. May is almost gone and as it fades into June my father is still in the hospital and we are dealing with what he is leaving behind. This is a new space for me to be in and I […]
read moreTwitter Project day 30 – and in the end
“And, in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make.” Paul McCartney It is the last day of April, the last day of poetry month and the last day of my twitter project. The journey has been a useful experiment and experience. I am richer for it and my writing […]
read moreTwitter Project day 29 – small beauty
I live in a beautiful place, a beautiful space. It breathes for me. Holds my blood. Moves my heart. Right now the landscape is bursting with yellow as the broom blooms in ditchs and fields. Broom is an invasive unwanted plant here. It is edging out the native plants and there is a constant effort […]
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