Category Archives: Other peoples words

Summer Noses Spouting Milk: Poetry Leads to Sit Down Comedy

“I don’t mind dying. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.“ Woody Allen I just came across this quote and it made me laugh loudly. I could hear the slight stutter and see the raised eyebrows over … Continue reading

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A Bit of Summer Rain/ 4 Rainy Poems

It has been raining a bit around here, the gentle, cool, rain of late summer, a lot like spring. The season is shifting. The light is retreating in little backward steps to the tip-toe encroachment of shadows, the same dance, … Continue reading

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Whose Driving This Thing?

Plastic Jesus I don’t care if it rains or freezes as long as I’ve got my plastic Jesus sitting on the dashboard of my car it comes in colors pink and pleasant it glows in the dark cause its iridescent … Continue reading

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Art in Nature/ Andy Goldsworthy

I remember days losing myself in arranging rocks and driftwood on a beach, or weaving with plant stems, building river stone dams just to see what the materials and space and my body could make. Just to truly be in … Continue reading

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Hallelujah

John Cale – Hallelujah Leonard Cohen knew how to write a song. John Cale knows how to sing it, and the strings are a nice touch. I love to sing this loudly. It is one of the most soothing songs … Continue reading

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