Category Archives: Inspirations

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ~ John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

You will remember… ~ Pablo Neruda You will remember that leaping streamwhere sweet aromas rose and trembled,and sometimes a bird, wearing waterand slowness, its winter feathers. You will remember those gifts from the earth:indelible scents, gold clay,weeds in the thicket and crazy roots,magical thorns like swords. You’ll remember the bouquet you picked,shadows and silent water,bouquetContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

RainBY KAZIM ALI With thick strokes of ink the sky fills with rainPretending to run for cover but secretly praying for more rain. Over the echo of the water, I hear a voice saying my name.No one in the city moves under the quick sightless rain. The pages of my notebook soak, then curl. I’veContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”

9 Good Things (for no apparent reason, I like #9): Blueberry jam on sourdough toast Secret art-making for Solstice already by the child Bottling of Rosehip Liqueur Homemade Ice Cream with Whey Caramel Fresh eggs arriving from our new batch of chickens Poetry by the fire early in the morning Impromptu afternoon dance parties FarmContinue reading “Musings for Monday”

Inkamisana BY CECILIA VICUÑA Stairs & ritesnot for the foot The buildingthinks Angular rock Green skyscraper Black ziggurat Miniatureof time Madeinto altar Inventionof the night Sproutingat dawn Carved rockprayingas it buds Seeking the seedto sprout! Salivain torrents Cooling waterfall You redeem your field Salt head Streamof lights Double reflection Stone& water The samesprouting

The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates andContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

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”