Author: Lisa or Li

mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.

Doodads — Sunday weekly video and photo

So much to take pics and video of, it’s hard to keep ahead of it. Here’s a mish-mash of the past week. Videos I’ve been uploading to YouTube:   And the final, surprise video.  This is a cool solar-powered flame hot air balloon younger son and his wife bought me last year or the year…

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dVerse — Poetics — Dad (repost)

summer rain fallsI remember how you lovedwarm days on the lake l.-r. me, my dad, and my brother Daddy’s hands were large, with dark hair and pleasant toneThey were proportionate to his thin frame and long bonesHands I used to stand and watch, transfixed, as he shaved My father’s eyes rarely had courage to meet…

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dVerse — MTB — The Crow’s Should Examined

The Crow’s Should Examined Here again, I laboriously climbyew’s dry branches in dead forestto crow prophesy:Take warning, we should forgive each other.You disparage my oily black feathers,considering them unsightly, unclean.Consider this too, though polar, may youglean from me, as mouthpiece, morselsthat may nourish all souls?Instead we are opposite, westand, entrenched in our untenable positions, blinded,…

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The Oracle Speaks: make care how

entwined tendrilverdant, fertilegiver, will stemthen stalk us.like worms that eatonly earth,everything you knowcan scatter;so make care howto cultivate a being. I added an “s” and a “to.” For those who wanted to see the poems I made from the botanical kit so far on my metal desk: There are enough letters left to make 2…

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