Six months ago, she’d been told to wait, and she trusted him. He was competent and he promised to return. Winter and its monotonous gray skies made the days long and the nights longer. One morning she stopped waiting. Bundling up dried rations, she and Star, the wolf dog, set out. She knew he went…
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.
Books Read in 2022
YOUR 2022 BOOKS Blue Horses by Mary Oliver Ida: Searching for the Jazz Baby by Frank Prem Moose by Ron Potter Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa Resurrection of Tatsuko by Hidenori Hiruta Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami…
Albums (CDs) for Christmas
I know I can’t be the only one who buys themselves Christmas presents. Since I featured a few Jethro Tull tunes this holiday season, it refreshed my want to own “Songs from the Wood,” one of the few albums of theirs I don’t have. I went to discogs to find a used CD and easily…
Book Review — “Blue Horses,” by Mary Oliver
I was given this slim volume of poetry as a Christmas gift, and I have to thank my friend, Trish, for her thoughtfulness. Thirty-eight poems, most one-page or less long, feels like a conversation with nature as transmitted by the author. Mary Oliver feels at home there, and she makes me feel ok with being…
#FF — Street Life
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields As seeds we’re imprisoned from the moment we’re released from our mothers’ branches. Pressed by rough fingers into prepared medium in small plastic squares, our sprouted roots escape through drainage holes to touch our kins’. As seedlings we are shifted to larger squares until mature enough to be burlap-sacked. For…
Book Review — _Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby_, by Frank Prem
Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby – Paperback release date 13th January 2023. I received an Advance Reader Copy of Ida: Searching for The Jazz Baby from author, Frank Prem. This book was a quick read, but one I plan on returning to again to savor. Frank’s poetry style is sparse, giving the reader tender…
Christmas Song Playlist 2022
7 songs. Enjoy!
Tao-Talk 