“Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people in the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you’re allContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”
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Monday’s Muse
Goethe put it over two centuries ago . . . Life as a whole expresses itself as a force that is not to be contained within any one part. . . . The things we call the parts in every living being are so inseparable from the whole that they may be understood only inContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”
Muse for a Spring Monday
Chansons Innocentes: I in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it’s spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it’s springContinue reading “Muse for a Spring Monday”
Monday’s Equinox Musings
Since our little imp was a wee one, we love to read these picture books for Spring. What favorites do you have? A Bell for Ursli – Alois Carigiet/Selina Chonz Rechenka’s Eggs – Patricia Polacco (all of her family stories are favorites) Miss Rumphius – Barbara Cooney (also good for Summer Solstice) Miss Maple’s SeedsContinue reading “Monday’s Equinox Musings”
Monday’s New Beginnings Musings
Just knowing that February is gone gives me hope. By the first of March I have had enough of shoveling snow, sanding icy steps, entering and leaving the schoolhouse in the dark, making treacherous pre-dawn treks down slushy county roads. I know better than to think winter is over, but a day will comin inContinue reading “Monday’s New Beginnings Musings”
Monday’s Solstice Musings
THE WORLD BY JENNIFER CHANG One winter I lived north, aloneand effortless, dreaming myselfinto the past. Perhaps, I thought,words could replenish privacy.Outside, a red bicycle frozeinto form, made the world falserin its white austerity. So muchhappens after harvest: the moonperforming novelty: slaughter,snow. One hour the sameas the next, I held my handsor held the snow.Continue reading “Monday’s Solstice Musings”
Monday’s Muse
whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice – Louise Glück
Monday’s Mabon Musing
Embrace this time the change of light, with shorter days and longer nights.The wheel has turned, the time will change,the darker side of the earth remains.There is magick in the lunar light, with intuition at its height.The alchemy of Mother Earth, from birth to death, will come rebirth. Rejoice in this season, may it fillContinue reading “Monday’s Mabon Musing”
Musing on a Monday
The Apple Orchard Come let us watch the sun go downand walk in twilight through the orchard’s green.Does it not seem as if we had for longcollected, saved and harbored within usold memories? To find releases and seeknew hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys,mingled with darkness coming from within,as we randomly voice our thoughts aloudwandering beneath theseContinue reading “Musing on a Monday”
Monday’s Musing
Burning the Old Year BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper,sizzle like moth wings,marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves aContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”
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