This is my entry for Week 3 of LJ Minor Plus (http://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org). The topic this week is "Intaglio." There will be no voting. You can read the other entries here: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1105950.html


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This is my entry for Week 2 of LJ Idol, Season 11 (http://www.therealljidol.com. This week's topic is "Living rent-free in your head."Cradling his too-small body in my arms, I suspected something wrong about this tactile memory. Like a real-life flashback, I held his still form, stroked his oversized alien head. Only a moment before, I had been in a doctor's office, learning ( Read more... )

This weekend, my sister and I hosted a retrospective art show of our late mother's work. Here's a virtual tour for everyone who couldn't be there:

Bright, Improbable Colors: Vivian Starr's Artwork

This is my entry for Week 18 of LJ Idol, Season 10 (therealljidol). We partnered up. I wrote about the topic, "The distance between us."

( Traveling together into the future. )

I usually take dream interpretation guides with a truckload of salt, because I believe it's more important what associations a specific person might have with a given symbol. However, last night's dreams conformed particularly well to standard interpretations.

( Plumbing the depths of my subconscious. )

This is my entry for LJ Idol, Season 10. The topic this week was; "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."

( My brain's GPS keeps reprogramming the route. )

This my entry for Week 11 of LJ Idol (therealljidol), where the topic is "The Blue Hour."

( Once upon a time there was a fairy tale. )

This is my entry for Week 10 of Season 10 of therealljidol. This week's topic is "Take a Hike."

( Adventuring in my own backyard. )

This is the fourth of four poems written for LJ Idol Season 10's Break Week. This one addresses the saying, "A possum walked over my grave," which is an unexplained shiver based on the concept that people once believed death and life were interconnected in such a way that your future grave was already foretold, and someone passing over it could ( Read more... )