The morning sky today easily put some blush upon my face too. 😊🙏 Windows I’d just cleaned yesterday on both sides, including the glass door, and yes, my plants are looking more alive again, was excited to wake up today and see what the view would be through such clear glass… And there was another…… Continue reading Unfolding The Way With Sky Blushes, A Falling Book, And A Suddenly Seen Keurig Machine
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Kick off Fall with a Party
I like to celebrate things, including the start of a new season. And Fall begins tomorrow. I’d recently reconnected with my ninth grade English teacher online when I told her that I read a book by a poet: Louise Glück whom she’d recommended to me years ago and thanked her. She asked me if I…… Continue reading Kick off Fall with a Party
A Sweet, Refreshing Beginning…
The literary salon begins with some blush… Yesterday afternoon, ‘Rumi’ black tea in a glass with a splash of almond milk. Autumn begins tomorrow…🍂😊 I send you my morning wishes and return to the salon with a cup of green tea and glimpsing the sky between sips as its colors lighten and merge… * Today…… Continue reading A Sweet, Refreshing Beginning…
Felt the Nudge of Intuition and Looked On To Find Some Great Discoveries in My Life
This is a photo of the Italian composer Boccherini and part of my Chamber Classical Music Playlist and Music for May. I was delighted to see we share a birthday on February 19! But his is 1743. I loved his chamber music (music for a small room) like his flute quintets, and that is a…… Continue reading Felt the Nudge of Intuition and Looked On To Find Some Great Discoveries in My Life
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The Literary Salon Goes On
A snapshot from Tuesday I said to Peeko, ”Make your literary salon face!” (snaps photo).The Tuesday literary salon is still May Ziadeh’s, not my own, that she hosted in Cairo and had to stop hosting unfairly in 1930, due to the law then with her parents dying and being an unmarried woman, but now it’s…… Continue reading The Literary Salon Goes On
The Moon and Surprise Live Violin Music
The moon beside the window before it moved on or a cloud moved in for the darkness that brings deep, satisfying rest. I was so surprised to hear another live electric violinist, this time by the supermarket where I’d never seen any performers, and I really loved this song I videoed, complimented the playing and…… Continue reading The Moon and Surprise Live Violin Music
Almost Autumn
It’s almost Autumn and the trees are still very green. * Let me introduce my week with words: Starting The Week with A Heart Back Intact and Plenty of Soulful Imaginings
Starting The Week with A Heart Back Intact and Plenty of Soulful Imaginings
Hearing my audio poems; sometimes he’s a very fluffy bunny, and sometimes a slightly violent teddybear. Peeko’s Moon and a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Truly Wise Book of Poems Over the weekend, Peeko sat by the book The Moon Before Morning like ’Read me more of these poems; it’s my moon!’ He is a Scorpio.…… Continue reading Starting The Week with A Heart Back Intact and Plenty of Soulful Imaginings
‘Auntie Jade’
Here I am today with my niece, Brinley, my first niece! This is Dan’s sister, Lauren, and our brother-in-law, Brett’s daughter. She was born on May 20th, 2021. One night before she was born, I woke a moment and thought, it will be fun to read her a bedtime or nap-time story sometime in the…… Continue reading ‘Auntie Jade’
For A Poet Born A Hundred Years Before My Birthday
2021 Dear May, Reading your poem, I felt your joy touch me. Wondering about who you were, I felt my own joy breezing toward me. Wishing to love you well, my joy returned. Loving me so concretely—your joy completes me. I find you so well and happy, so much a part of heaven, and you…… Continue reading For A Poet Born A Hundred Years Before My Birthday
Surprise Mascot and A Return to Daily Life
In my first Blog Show video, I planned to talk about how I don’t know anything about football or care for it (although I’ve requested quick crash courses to just fail) for no planned reason, but the topic didn’t come up. I didn’t know the Patriots would be here yesterday evening at a free outdoors…… Continue reading Surprise Mascot and A Return to Daily Life
My Blog Show
I just decided to turn my camera on and filmed this video, 30 minutes. 😊🎤💗☀️ My 1st Blog Show: Fri., 9/10/21 “Home, Hair, Intuition, and Art” Blush of Dawn https://youtu.be/yfej8DOXIi8 Link: https://youtu.be/yfej8DOXIi8 Note: It is actually ‘pure coconut oil’ in a cream form. You can leave it on your head for hours or overnight and…… Continue reading My Blog Show
September Eighth, Safekeepings
Tues., Sept. 7 ‘21 My calendar showed me it was time to open the book with the snow-flowers and the rose, as I’d learned that flowers preserve more easily if the book that holds them is kept closed ‘til it’s time. The snow-flowers were like a mysterious gift taken off the stems at their fullness…… Continue reading September Eighth, Safekeepings
The Little Pieces of Wisdom I Treasure Which May Be Made of Tissue Paper
Why would I need great wealth when the library is so much fun? Let me have a few clothes hangers to detangle after a just neatened closet wardrobe. Let me find the empty clothes hangers taking up extra room one by one, and then set them apart one by one, and close the door…go out…… Continue reading The Little Pieces of Wisdom I Treasure Which May Be Made of Tissue Paper
A Peek into My Day Without A Key or Surveillance Camera
Last chance library trip, success! I had the quick idea to go to the library for some poetry and novels to take off the shelf that hour Friday afternoon, and as I got to the library I saw a sign on the door that they’d be closed on the weekend and Monday for Labor Day,…… Continue reading A Peek into My Day Without A Key or Surveillance Camera
The Lost Girl
Good afternoon, I didn’t know if I would really go away. 😊But I did. And I am back now to tell you about a novel I’ve completed that I’d mentioned before I left, The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence, and I won’t spoil plot or suspense for readers. I’d just recently found the novel in…… Continue reading The Lost Girl
A Real Rest Begins…After These Photos
Let the rest for readers (and me) begin at last… But first, a few more from my photo series, ‘Not My Door.’ Not My Door But I Got My Keys Not My Door But I Got Here Anyway 🧚♀️ Not My Door But I Brought You My Junk Mail 😊🙏🧚♀️ 1…2…3…Watch me go! Be Back…… Continue reading A Real Rest Begins…After These Photos
In 2021, I Just Happened to Find a Dance to Take Us into 1921
Grandma Shirley knew about this free dance gathering with a band, including especially good Swing music, and as she’d practiced ballroom and line dancing before and I hadn’t, I asked her if she wanted to dance to this song.I don’t have dance lesson experience or knew the dances they were doing but it wasn’t a…… Continue reading In 2021, I Just Happened to Find a Dance to Take Us into 1921
Just Ran Into A 70s Soul Pool Party
No, I didn’t crash it; but the party was starting! That’s what life is: some random surprises and a chance to dance, if you wish to. My own film I filmed myself. https://youtu.be/QbE4akMl9Mw https://youtu.be/QbE4akMl9Mw * Up to date with what this blog’s about & brighter lit photos with some little fairy wands: About Previously about…… Continue reading Just Ran Into A 70s Soul Pool Party
