it's too long a story.   It was harrowing.   No clutch on the way UP and DOWN and then over.   Last Saturday.   But more than that kind of harrowing,   the high anxiety i put self through  the following Sun  Mon  and Tues  over dreading asking the mechanic down at the corner,   the truly GREAT mechanic down…

this is the pic i lost.   see below this would be next…it's flowering now,  there is a very subtle powdery  fragrance like you might imagine in a victorian lady's budoir.   The flowering clusters are round.   The flowers themselves at first look simple…how they have looked to me the first year,  last year and this year…

they begin as heart shaped.   There are hundreds.   The Goats do not eat them.   each cluster is attached to the earth by a kind of filament stem root       as time goes they begin to resemble lily pads.   She calls them the lily pad plant.   some develop a secondary small leaf…

i can choose.   Every day.   How i see and experience my life.   Many nuances from pragmatic to totally SURReAL.   All are valid.  All carry Truth.  Choose.   Choosing. i sat here,  in this small house space last night a longtime.   For a while,  a dog barked in the distance,  repetatively.   Which means a dog tied or…

got these two in the Shop.   Above,  the Magician's Cloth                                                                                           …

i am here,   to make the Post for today and phone rings  (or whatever it is,  the sound,  of this cell phone)  and it's a California # i answered and it was a survey.  with a very tired sounding young woman wanting to ask me questions about the upcoming Vote.  As it went along,  and…

in reference to a post from Acey   Sparklinglotusink.typepad.com   Nichobella The Daughter Cloth.    just after Jude's patchwork Beasts….Cloth Weaving….made of torn strips of very used household cloth,  stained and with holes.   Wove and stitched while standing on a ladder.   It hung on that Beam into the ROOM in New Mex.  That other Life.   I remember…

Surnai Molloy  was raised on an eight mile long island offshore Galway by parents who ran an organic garden and lived as simply as possible,  with a very small income.  Home schooled until the age of 15,  she spent her afternoons going to the sea and walking along the cliffs.  Currently she is a creative…

Alicia Pearl Ever….the VERY Young Manzanita,   her two Pine Sentinels and a buddha   i just looked,  after publishing,  clicking to Enlarge,   and how so elegant the Enlarge,  so so perfect and Gentle and beautyFully Elegant the image….i stared and breathed       there was Wonder of what size?…this.   i do this in the…

1970's.    Lake Superior,  Upper Peninsula,  Michigan…..traveling to lower peninsula,  Ann Arbor,   to Oregon,   to Arizona,  back to Michigan,  on to NewMexico,   now….Northern California.   Companion.   Holder of small water,  Everywhere.   Water.  Stone.