typepad is again having issues. The post from yesterday….all the pics ended up being black holes. Just now, i tried again and instead of a photograph, got numbers. So…for now, till they either work it through or don’t, i am living. i am doing. i am Going. and i am Good. There is 100% chance…

  it's inordinately cold here this week…a few days now and ongoing into the beginning of next week.   goes down to 37 F at night.  So i had to go find this blanket….the loved Tina and the equally loved commercial comforter from the Animal Shelter Yard Sale 20 some years ago  not enough.   i turn…

all over the planet,  this Earth,   there are Gatherings.   Jude took us today to a Place of Gathering…far across this continent.   like i haven't stitched,   i also have not come here.   i just haven't.   this morning i did.   approaching from a distance,  stopping,  standing and saying aloud….I am here. it's like having…

  friday night.    i hadn't looked at the weather….glued to the news.   went to sleep.    awakened by a cry.   Minion,  or,  Cry Baby as he is also called….down the way in the dark dark and i simultaneously realize it was RAINING a lot.  heavy,  steady.   sat up,  pulled on  boots and got the…

Buck goats.    Nogal the youngest.   Proven by siring the two wethers,  minnion and black.   His first.   and so far,  only  opportunity.   But he busys himSelf in his forrest and enjoys watching life go by.  He is gentle tho almost impossible to catch for an Evacuation.  Almost impossible to catch for a Portrait….this is the…

      When my kids were little,  i didn't want to use the word bad….say things are Bad.   So we called them  UnGood.    So….things,  or,  CertainThings are very UnGood and i don't know how to speak of all that.   No need to repeat what we all read everywhere ad infinitum.   And simultaneously,  Goats…

the young Cottonwood.   At the creek.   Beginning the Change and already shimmering

a tile.   Irene made this and gifted me….a kind of long time ago.   Sunny Ray.    I'd been looking at it,  every day for some time.  I can't have a kiln here.  or,  maybe i could.  but i'm not ready for that.   But i look.  and hold it.   i want to make some very…

  Sitting with.    me,   showing what i love.   Stone is quiet.   I don't know how to do this, so,  i just go.   then Listen.   Today:   it takes Time.   Learn to Take the Time.