don't know if this will work.  Typepad is having trouble this eve.  so…maybe or maybe not. it's dinnertime and as we eat,  we talk.  I am still here with this being and we are talking about how we watched Utubes and read about Snails.  How Julian had brought home some snails from his old Montesori…

how Beauty Full  hir body is.  So soft,  so undefined.  So unafraid.

First Puppy Day.   I love this pic a lot.  It's representative of so much.  Of who the 3 of us are,  me,  my daughter Jenny,   her daughter Alyssis is/are.   I was wanting to say a lot.  But it's late now and i'm out of steam.   Alyssia had an appointment at the…

this day,  one year ago,  we were on our Way.  There was sadness and fear.  There was a kind of numb blankness.  We were approaching the place,  Merced (mercy),  California,  where the fate of a kitten would intertwine with ours.  Puppy.  So,  it's kind of a holiday.  That we might yearly celebrate and maybe we…

the conditions under which Joy arises

    i have a zillion words just rising up.  I probably should be back in therapy,  like i was,  i guess 40 some years ago,  but who would i "go" to?  How long would it take,  to tell what i would need to tell as the prologue to what i am looking at this…

so i'll  click publish and see what we have here.  If it's still not it,  will just let it stand as is.  This all makes me smile.   how great.  I'd tried to put this pic twice before and once it was all elongated and then the second time,  it was squashed.  On this third…

the day didn't go as imagined.  We ended up waiting till Julian got off school.  Which actually made sense,  because the most pressing need was pants for him.  He grows.  Only has three pair.  One is ify.   He has sensitivities about his clothing.  Like Old Nana  like boy.  No one would ever guess by…

  ok,  it's just how it is.   Unless there is some further input from the forest It's Self,  i realize i am not going to be able to use lichen, mushrooms, and mosses for dye.   My purpose would be to satisfy curiosity,  to satisfy curiosity for the purpose of pleasure. as i am…

how the Magic is always there,  already there.  Can you see the small figure in the upper right?  Arms extended to It All? how in the midst of everything,  Earth continues against all odds.    a woman evacuated with her fish.  in a canning jar.    Did i already say that?  if i did,  it's…