Blue Moon

The Importance of Math Skills

Eda-yum-ae

Labored Breathing Ride

Part of my SAG team since I was a bit nervous about my first ride after being sick for almost a month...

Evidently There Is A Mountain High Enough

We have a problem because someone (me) accidentally (truly) sent the laptop flying off the table to the floor. Evidently computers do not like to be treated this way and then act out by not working...so I will be coming back to edit....and in the meantime...I give you this...from Friday...

What is frustrating is that you can't see what I could see with my little eye...I could see all the way to the mountains - the snow covered mountains from town...very exciting...

Proximity

You Are (not) Here

Surprise Chilean Visitor

An Emo Anniversary Night

P.R.I.D.E.

At Least a Room With a View

Under Rain

Drive Thru Landscaping

For the day...

Praise song for the day.
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues.

Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair. Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.

A farmer considers the changing sky; A teacher says, "Take out your pencils. Begin."

We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed; words to consider, reconsider.

We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of someone and then others who said, "I need to see what's on the other side; I know there's something better down the road."

We need to find a place where we are safe; We walk into that which we cannot yet see.
Say it plain, that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle; praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign; The figuring it out at kitchen tables.

Some live by "Love thy neighbor as thy self."

Others by first do no harm, or take no more than you need.

What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.

In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.

On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.

- Elizabeth Alexander

Approaching a Crossroads

Wee Walks Wee

Getting Going

Unseasonably Warm Good Byes

Getting Home Before Complete Dark

Home

Slow Go

Morning Fog Delay

eCommute

Paper Reflections

Good News

On a winters day...

Recycling Loss - Oh, OU...

Works Late

A Fence Is A Com'in