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Odyssey to Homer, Alaska – Haiku 1 – Moab

Posted on July 3, 2013 9 Comments

Heat seeps into pores walk beneath Moab’s towers tasty food beckons. Moab, Utah is a tourist town and we’re staying here for two days. These photos capture a little of the feel of the town. As for tasty food, I had a portobello mushroom M.O.A.B. (Mother of all burritos) at Miguel’s Baja Grill. And I […]

The Constancy of Change – Haiku

Posted on June 30, 2013 8 Comments

The Pain of Packing. Tears well with moving. […]

A Poem – Sleep

Posted on June 23, 2013 8 Comments

On full moon nights, for some strange reason, I often feel very tired. Or maybe this time, a week of packing books and moving stuff for a garage sale has left every bone in my body weak and exhausted. So, the following poem is quite appropriate for today. SLEEP Sleep is my lover. He embraces […]

Poetic Musings

Posted on June 9, 2013 12 Comments

Yesterday, nostalgia overcame me as I culled through my letters file, going back to the late eighties. I see how time has flown and wonder why we who used to share so much, so seldom speak or write today. Is it true that time is speeding up or that technology and distance make friends become […]

Free Write Friday – The Seed

Posted on June 7, 2013 19 Comments

It’s been a few weeks since I had the time to participate in Kellie Elmore’s Free Write Friday. Below is the prompt and the short story that just came to me immediately. Enjoy. You’re young. You are standing in front of a shop window watching something on the black and white television inside. A woman grabs your […]

Change Coming – and a Poem

Posted on June 2, 2013 9 Comments

I’ve been writing this blog from the Hopi nation for almost two years. I began sharing my oral stories and have evolved into sharing my creative writing, which seems to attract more followers. But, the winds of change have been blowing daily in Hopiland for over a month and they have blown into my life. […]

What is Happenning in Istanbul?

Posted on June 1, 2013 1 Comment

I got this blog from La Vie Et La Danse. I was shocked and saddened to read it and think others should be aware of what is happening in Turkey.

In Memorium

Posted on May 26, 2013 9 Comments

Photo by outontheporch.org Americans began commemorating the deaths of soldiers after the Civil War in different states. On May 30, 1868, the first national commemoration was observed when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Since that date, over 360,000 soldiers are now buried in Arlington Cemetery, […]

My Lucky Bamboo

Posted on May 19, 2013 6 Comments

Joyce, I call her after the nurse who gave me this curling beauty an unexpected perfect Christmas gift. Quickly her roots screamed against the narrow black ceramic vase as she towered tall but I wanted her small wax halted her height so her leaves sprouted sideways. Grass green, fern deep leaves lift upward praying palms […]

Happy Mother’s Day Lucille – A Book Review

Posted on May 12, 2013 2 Comments

Who would believe that a cigarette smoking white woman with only an eighth grade education, five children, and more than twice divorced could plant the seeds for Vajrayana Buddhist practice in the United States? But it is true, a little known story related, in all of its mysticism and contradictions, in the book Luminous Sitting, […]