HAND MADE BOOK with FLANNEL FLOWER THEME

See Variations

PERFECT WINTER TREE

MY CARDS WERE SENT BY ANGEL MAIL

FOOD FOR HEALTH

Toast red rice in coconut oil with fresh garlic, reduce flame, add vegetable broth, simmer till done. Boil adzuki beans till done. Cut kale into strips and steam till it wilts. Mix beans and rice together, add Bragg liquid enzymes to taste and, if adventurous, a bit of chili powder.

Serve on a bed of kale in deep bowl topped with fresh slices of cherry tomato.

TIME TO BAKE

LET THERE BE LIGHT

TBT

GONE

and...the melody lingers on

PLANT INDOORS NOW

HEADED HOME

BALANCE

NEST

Wind will not, nor chill assault
                the pillowed nest where I

Leave the world to curl within

                 to sleep, to dream, to fly

NEED A SMILE---TAKE THREE

The ghost of me photographing the screen and smiling is partly visible in all three shots.

PRAYER BEADS and TWEED SLEEVE

NEEDS

TEA TIME

SHELF MUSHROOMS

http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/funfacts/shelffungi.htm

REINCARNATION

BRIGHT MORNING RISING

See more images and hear the song in several versions at

Ms.Uncertainty Principles

BIRD DOG

TRICK ? TREAT ?

HAPPY BLENDER

WASHING WINDOWS

and..........................................seen another way

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This is what one finds at one's favorite Type pad sites sometimes, and what I find today while looking for Myth and Moore, Windthread and Spirit Cloth.

SHADOW SELFIE

KOAN

MIND IS HERE

ARTIST STATEMENT

Someone cut the tree down. An artist reacted

REQUEST

I live in a building where almost everyone is a stranger now, where I used to know every one. These new and ever changing ones have no use for my presence, and don't know the me I used to be, nor the history of the place, nor do they care.  It's understandable of course.  Why should they.  Weekends are roughest because there's a lot of coming and going at all hours day and night.  Everything creeks and cracks, voices echo, doors slam shaking walls, and I'm shaken as well from whatever I'm doing or not doing, muscles clenched, heart quickened.  Sometimes a spill, or a ruined pen line.  It's unpredictable.  Often a startled awakening precipitates sleepless vigilance.  I use it as best I can to strengthen my focus, in the same way a loud siren can be incorporated into a sitting meditation--"soften" I say to my self, and "let go, let go, go on, let go" playing in my head like a mantra.  But this weekend I was struggling with a cold that had worked it's way into all my damaged parts--shoulder, knees, hand and neck joints.  Friday I taped this sign to my apartment door.  Some results.  Some resentments too.

And, so it goes...

NOT A 'SELFIE'

  Friend took this with his I-phone while we were at the National Arts Club

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ME and OUR WORLD 'SELFIE'

OLD WAYS

It's a comfort to think of Seasons in the folk way today with a certain damp lurking at the edge of October here.  

All customs and songs shown in this twenty minute film are traditional, they've been recorded from the country people several centuries ago. It’s not neo-paganism, it’s the indigenous European paganism in it’s original form.

http://youtu.be/z62Ai8vrebk

WOOL

TO SEVER

There comes a time when the kindest thing to do is to sever, when the only way to love is to let go.

PRIORITY

NEW ON EAST 7th STREET

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Read about the rise of this business and meet the owners...HERE

TODAY'S INTENTION

Beauty
Apple Pie
Pear Compote
Peace of mind

CLOTH DETAIL

'August' by Grace Forest

NEW NEIGHBORS BELOW

What could this message mean? A sense of humor I hope!

CLOSE COMPANIONS

Love and All That Jazz

ZEN -GANESH

TAKE HEED

"Let me respectfully remind you
life and death are of supreme
importance.  Time swiftly passes
by and opportunities are lost.  On
this night our days are decreased
by one.  Each of us should strive
to awaken.  Awake!  Take heed.
do not squander your life."

http://zencare.org/ 

Have a listen:
http://zencare.org/archives/zentalks/i-am-alive-7-28-2012

PAY ATTENTION-BE KIND

We all need kindness.  Every one of us.

http://youtu.be/n74oETG-cNs

BEGINNING

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

ARCHY and MEHITABEL

"It's the birthday of newspaper columnist Don Marquis, born in Walnut, Illinois (1878), who created the characters Archy the cockroach and Mehitabel the alley cat. Archy was a former free verse poet who "sees life from the underside now." He wasn't able to reach the shift key so everything he wrote was in lower case. And Mehitabel was an alley cat with questionable morals who insisted that she was Cleopatra in one of her former lives.

Marquis was a champion of the underdog and not a fan of pretension. His columns were humorous, but had political undertones. His character Archy said once, "a louse i used to know told me that millionaires and bums tasted about alike to him." And, "what is all this mystery about the sphinx that has troubled so many illustrious men no doubt the very same thoughts she thinks are thought every day by some obscure hen."

http://youtu.be/dJRbK-NmCFI

TWILIGHT TIME SING ALONG

~*~

http://youtu.be/LmKzWE5FBq8

 Here are fifteen more photographs from others

http://earthsky.org/earth/twilight-best-photos

TIME FOR SUNFLOWERS