From my couch observation deck, the slider windows frame a snapshot of the season. Across the field and off to the southwest is a tree that is ahead of its companions in spring and autumn. It is the first tree to show green in spring when green is so desperately craved by grey-weary eyes and…
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.
POPO2023 Day 23
Henri Matisse, “Woman with a Hat” Promptitis or promptosis? An inflammation or a chronic condition? I call The Muse without a Prompt and She waits for Pavlov’s bell to ring. Nature stands mute and cats are just cats.
POPO2023 Day 22
Henri Matisse, “Blue Nude” I’ve had three massage therapists over the last twenty years Masseuse One: fifteen years, super cheap, head to toe, loved to talk, which developed into a friendship, which ruined the massages. Masseuse Two: three years, exceptionally skilled, informed healer; inflation floated her above my pocketbook. Masseur One (3): cheap, in a…
food – Lemon-ricotta Dutch Baby
A couple of months ago, I decided to start Hello Fresh, which is a company that will send every ingredient (except for things like oil, butter, salt, and sugar) for a recipe in refrigerated, recyclable, mostly paper packaging and includes a step-by-step preparation card. You tell them how many meals you want and each week,…
magnetic poetry 102123
Beneath bluebird there’s no sun but run barefoot believe almost anything warmth and bliss only this essential light vibration our soul I used the “happiness” set at magneticpoetry.com. Thank you, Oracle.
POPO2023 Day 21
Henri Matisse, “Dance” Poor circulation in my feet led me to Cloud Massager bottom rollers up and down, side to side, back and forth bellows open and close my footsies, gripping, randomly going through its routine of ecstasy giving. Please design one for the whole body. I wonder what one for the soul would be…
Friday Favorite Feature 9 — Daddy’z Breakdown
Daddy’z Breakdown jpg from their inactive facebook page The first/only time I heard Daddy’z Breakdown was in 2010, at a little bar in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we had gone to see another band (Dutch Henry) in the lineup. They had just released their eponymous debut (and only, to date) album and were selling them…
Tao-Talk 