Grandmothers
Flower Lady

Flower Lady

Is She Bright Enough? We went to an Iris Dement concert a while back. It was great and it inspired a song as well as this picture. This is totally not a picture of Iris, but rather a picture of how I felt after hearing her sing. I went with the song, and forgot to...

An Eternal Moment of Love

Angels singingwith the mourning dovewakes me to the new daywhispering my namemy real name…Meanwhile the praying mantisis always praying every momentwith every part of its beingSuch is living in the nowIn the NowI eternally love life

Nuts to You (and to me)

The nut of itThe kernel of eternal truthcan be a bit toughto get to through the shellAH! But the meat is tasty!

Sudden Verve

On the bank of the wide old riverwhere the elderberry and mugwortwave to each other in the breezesA plodding turtle familycame upon a band of musical cricketsprepping up for an evening concertSuddenlywith verveHappy turtles...

First Meeting

Their first meeting…a faded drop of paintoff in a plain section of washesas if the brush was afraid of the paperThe background of pastel strangerssketched with tenuous bristleinto hours of exuberant meetingThe images of tree and bushriver near lake, appeareda...

Inspirations

Spontaneous inspiration overtookthe overlooked corners of our psycheawakening the inner jukeboxThere's a lightness to the stepof the person who is kepton toes of celebrationof joyous conversationYes....!

Rock of Love

as a child, he depended uponhanging on tenuous hooksprepared for fun and sillinessunmitigated play amongstheaps of adult minefieldsthe knowing piled up highin his gut of gutsno matter whatthe insidious circumstancesthere was the rock of his father’s lovetethered and...

Start Your Engines

In the company of the Museand a troupe of her affiliates(or is it her initiates?)the air vibrates with enthusiasmcreative epiphanies sparkingin the air like mini-lightning---One session -  a jolt from the starterrevved up for a daytrip of ideas---Regular...

Beginnings

Babies are babiesno matter what animalAnd the cuteness factorquadruples the chancesfor adults to emergeThe innocence of beginner’s mindis open and attractiveAnd the pristine thought patternsquadruple the chancesfor inspiration to be sparked

Embracing the Tell

Have you ever noticed…Through the corner of your eyeor the edge of your hearingwithout an inkling of a causeexcept the tiniest tug in the gut???There on the periphery of perceptionsome truths lie in wait ever since pushed out of focuson some long ago forgotten...