to my grandmothers,

yesterday was great, thank you for a very organic, relaxing, re-energizing day with lovely friends. i picked up janna, kyle and kiddo reagon in the morning and we headed to the country, to belluz farm went to pick the last strawberries of the season.( Read more... )

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This is a poem about my first sweatlodge experience

We sit with thick-skins in clothes that we slip off.
Slowly, we move on our knees and hands as we crawl into a darkness -

an experience like what it is to become child again and to return
to the earthly, moist, rounded, sighing womb.

With humbleness we fumble our legs now neatly folded

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A few photos I took while in Toronto


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June 13, 2009


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I'm warm in my blankets and watching the lightning and listening to thunderstorm and rain out my bedroom window. Ziggitty-zaggity. It's holding back a bit. It's just rumbling but I imagine things might get boisterous. This would probably be a good time to be in near proximity with another human being and snuggling. Damn. Lights on. Lights off. ( Read more... )

HOW I SPEND MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS

May 09, 2009
Morning, I wake up to gentle flurries outside my window. It's May. Surprise.Baked sweet egg-custard tarts this morning with mother; sister mixed up batter for making crepes before she went to work. My parents and I took these treats over for my grandparents, and cousins. Spent the afternoon at (uncle's) ( Read more... )

It really is like re-acquainting with an old friend. My cousin, Ellen is visiting and so my sister and I are coming up with things for all of us to do. We had a nice little evening of visiting the mall, photography, admiring deer at the marsh, and then catching up on things and having coffee at Calico coffeehouse. Afterward, we overlooked the ( Read more... )

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