she is like everything

I was at a book store in Grass Valley, browsing obscure poetry pamphlets.

I made a little stack of ones with interesting covers.

I opened the first one, and that is what is said.

I think you are...I think I am...

we are...

The Eleventh Dream

"...the street was wide with the emptiness of morning a boulevard, slightly downhill, sloping just so much as would be needed to take the little bit of weight from a childs step.

She walked as if little wings were on her feet."

-Rilke

...like everything else

yes

that beautiful.

INSPIRE + MAKE

INSPIRE

"We come to know in art that we do not clearly know where we will arrive in our work, although we set the compass, our vision; that we are lead in going along, by material and work process. We have plans and blueprints, but the finished work is still a surprise. We learn to listen to our voices; the yes or no of our material, our tools, our time. We come to know that only when we feel guided by them our work takes on form and meaning, that we are misled when we follow our will. All great deeds have been achieved under a sense of guidance."
(words and necklace = the great, amazing, everything Annie Albers)


MAKE



finding the need to make these lately.
Only the dried branches of manzanita and small gauge wire.
simplicity.
beautiful simplicity.
The Gods Eye is a magical tool for the Huichol people.
It is the symbolic power of seeing that which is unknown and unknowable.
understanding the mystery.
I wear this one around my neck.

(learning to love the mystery)

a fair Sunday...

The Nevada County Fair

brings back memories...

rides
games
caramel corn
bright lights

I always wanted to win the biggest stuffed toy...



...turn a dollar into a gold fish...

...and kiss a boy on the top of the ferris wheel.

Some things never change.

Stay Together

stay together

learn the flowers

go light

-Gary Snyder (from his poem For the Chidren)

People keep asking me lately what I want...
I tend to fumble a bit in the face of this question - but I know:

I want to stay together
I want to learn the flowers
I want to go light.

(and the rest will fall into place)
?

Give your eyes to the night

"...the stars are the eyes of human beings,
which rise out of their closed lids and become bright and regain their strength.
And that is why all the stars are above the country-side,
where everyone is sleeping,
and over the town there are only a few, because there are so many restless people there,
weeping,
and reading,
laughing and watching,
who keep their eyes."

-Rilke from The Dream Book

Give your eyes to the night,
so all the stars will stay bright.

Where is Bill...

Bill was here,

and Will and Willis and John.
(Sunset)
http://www.sunsetswebsite.com
They came on a Thursday.
I cooked pasta with every veggie in the garden we had melon and strawberries for desert.
There was wine and whiskey, and lots of songs and stories,
and sticks of burning sage.

Jesse Woods was here too -
I think these were his cigarettes.
http://www.myspace.com/jessewoodsband

On Saturday we had a potluck and invited all the neighbors and friends and had a little farm concert.
I made caramelized onion tart, and my famous secret popcorn for a late night snack
(the secret - nutritional yeast + butter + cumin + salt = yum)
When is was time to leave Bill left me with a few parting gifts.
Among musical talents and the ability to wipe away your tears with thousand dollar bills,
he is also a writer of short bits of odd genius.
see below...
(click on images to read)

Thank you Bill!
(and Will and Willis and John and Jesse Woods)
you are the best!

Please Mr. Postman

because finding this in the mail box feels really good.