Category Archives: Inspirations

Daybreak Flat on my bedenjoying the very idea of flatnessthe beauty of weightas if I were the horizon…Daylight comes slowmounting alterations on the wall.Sun, you come back, filling your place. What a thing it is to have this power, to climb to the very tip of daylight. ~ Robert Winner (from The Sanity of EarthContinue reading “Monday and a Muse”

We want there to be a reason to get up in the morning. We want the moon and the sun and the earth to continue their dance around us and us equally around them. We want the seeds to sprout, the flowers to bloom, the leaves to fall, and the dormant time to rest. WeContinue reading “Monday Monday”

Perhaps the World Ends HereBY JOY HARJO The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on. We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teetheContinue reading “Monday & a Muse”

Another fallacy comes creeping in whose errors you should be meticulous in trying to avoid. Don’t think our eyes, our bright and shining eyes, were made for us to look ahead with. Don’t suppose our thigh bones fitted our shin bones and our shins our ankles so that we might take steps. Don’t think thatContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat toContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”

I was thinking this morning of art that has really struck me – not monumental art like Picasso’s Guernica or Botticelli’s La Primavera (which have certainly struck me and are amazing) but something a little more accessible. I remembered (Josh doesn’t, even though I remember him being moved, too) an art show we went toContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

This lovely news story about The Monarch Midwife (sorry about the ads, etc) came across my path – I can’t help but love things like this. Our milkweed patch failed this year (no idea why) and we have not seen as many lovely butterflies – I’m so glad that this woman is helping their numbers.Continue reading “Monday’s Musing”

And so I ask myself: what, at this moment in history, would not be a waste of my time? And I arrive at five tentative answers: One: Withdrawing. If you do this, a lot of people will call you a “defeatist” or a “doomer,” or claim you are “burnt out.” They will tell you that youContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairyContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”