Monday, October 27, 2008
Jumping Off, Staying Put, and P.S.
Most days, I consider myself lucky. Lucky that I have a warm home to fall asleep in, a family who shelters me from other kinds of storms, and friends who swoop in and take me to the movies on my off-days. But other days, there's a restlessness that sets in that accompanies words like "last ditch effort" or "the jumping-off place." (This restlessness is also shadowed by fantasy runaway trips to places like Vienna or Bali or Missoula, Montana.)
But right here, right now, I am content to be up early, listening to the wind howling around the house and bending the limbs of the trees around themselves. I'm content to watch the fire consume itself in my hearth, and the hot coffee (and the idea of coffee) reside on my table next to me. And the dogs, the sleepy-eyed dogs who lift their heads only momentarily in wonder about why I'm even awake when it's still so painfully dark outside. Today's about staying put, enjoying a moment to myself, getting another half a cup of coffee.
P.S. Happy Birthday, Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas...may you toast each other in Heaven's "poet-corner."
Monday, October 20, 2008
Noticing
of the web...
...of the water...
of the circle of light...
...of the rosemary running over...
...and this, discovered only after downloading the pictures onto my computer. Call it a trick of light, of lenses, of reflections. I know what it looks like to me (throat chakra and all). (Click to enlarge.)
Friday, October 17, 2008
This is it--my street. Where I hang my hat, lay my head, receive my personal post. Look how it rises and falls, like a lover's body. A lover's body that you're still in love with. As I crested the hill yesterday, I slowed my car to a crawl, and beheld the mountains in the distance. Handily, I extracted my Iphone from the pocket of my red velvet jacket, and took a few shots. In just a few instants, the photos I took were uploaded into the blogosphere. Just like that.
You can not see the mountains today, as a layer of fog and rain clouds have descended on my little city, and turned my mood to an insular one. I cancelled a gabfest with my sister-in-law so that I could just veg out, wrap myself in a nap in a room with the shades drawn. It's a shades-drawn kind of day...I love the natural light, but not so much the natural light of a rainy day. I'd rather it be filtered through the blue curtains and be done with it. The boys went to get a haircut at the place that does the old-fashioned, lathered neck shave that the Husband thinks so much of, leaving me Thank the Lord to my own devices for an hour or so. Now, the contact lenses need taking out, and the little nappy can commence. For now, My Street is a quiet one.