(There are) many stories which are not on paper, they are written in the bodies and minds of women. — Amrita Pritam I hear her each morning before she rounds the corner heading to the well. It is a shuffling, almost furtive, where her worn sandals scuffle hard-packed dust. It would have been kinder to…
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.
#FF — Gentrified
PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox My lineage has lived in this building since the town formed. Great-great grandfather helped Mr. Lanscombe lay the bricks, in exchange for a promise of a forever apartment for his family. Although deed-free, who could leave such an arrangement. A sesquicentennial later, I’m still here. Some say it’s a dump,…
dVerse — Quadrille 153 — Greed’s Covet
Dawn blushes horizon’s lip as deer, mist-soaked, hooves to coats, browse. Drowsy after night’s day, they, dainty, step through stone testaments of dust. The grass is greenest here, over bones, where ghosts’ collective groans lament our kind’s terminal folly; our greed’s covet .……………………………………………over love. top image link Linda is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. …
Doodads — bike ride today
Bike ride stats: 10.83 miles1 hour 40 minutes6.5 avg. mph246.4 elevation gain in feet Honeysuckle bushes along the bike trail.
TV Movie Draft, Lisa’s Pick, Round 7, Thursday 5/26/22, Trailer Park Boys
l.-r.: Julian, Bubbles, Ricky I know that originally I was going to write about the mixed martial arts series, Kingdom, but it had too much of a Ray Donovan vibe, so I decided to write about Trailer Park Boys, a beloved series that I haven’t watched all episodes of but have watched dozens of them….
NPR Fresh Air, 5/25/22, “At 58, poet Diana Goetsch finally feels right in her own skin”
Tyler Foltz/Farrar, Straus and Groux Fresh Air | By Terry Gross Published May 25, 2022 at 12:26 PM EDT Read or listen here. Where, “Diana Goetsch writes about her later-in-life transition in the memoir“ On my way home from the dentist today I heard the last bit of this interview and thought it…
Tao-Talk 