Two days ago a homeless man was bent over in the rain, in the dark, in the rain outside my shop; I was bringing bouquets called 'sunset' containing alstromeria, germinis, huckleberry and passion roses inside for the night. He stood up with a bar of soap in his hand, which was brand new and of excellent quality, I'd say. He turned and said "I don' ( Read more... )

This afternoon I went to Glengary Hospital for my volunteer job painting with old folks. But the season has changed and change makes old people tired and sick, so there were more volunteers in the class than attendants. I asked a nurse if there was anything else to do since I was there and she suggested a one-on-one visit. She knew of someone in ( Read more... )

From this spot if I stare straight ahead at the old timey map on my bedroom wall I see 'Wilkes Land'. I stare until it blurs into 'Wilken Land' and I imagine myself there, in a parka in Antarctica gazing off accross the Durville Sea. I have befriended the polar bears because we move the same way...very slowly. They are warm and furry, and I can' ( Read more... )

This afternoon I went to the UPS store to have a rather large painting packaged and shipped to Saskatchewan ( Read more... )

Since Katherine from Immaculate Machine tours full time with the New Pornographers now they needed some other studly young lady to fill the spot for a show in Seattle on Dec. 9th ( Read more... )

I'm very thankful that, among other great friends, one Beth Collins is part of my life. She invites me to events such as the 'Local Food Dinner/Lecture' event that we attended last night. This, I might go so far as to say, was the best food I have ever tasted. And the company was wonderful...it was an auditorium full of environment-conscious, ( Read more... )

I dreamed I was standing in a field of sunflowers at dusk...then awoke from a coma and was told I'd been out for 3 months. I left the hospital alone with a sunflower in my hand and traveled to an abandoned farmhouse that was full of squatters. I spoke with different squatters in different rooms of the house and in the end I was in the attic ( Read more... )

A lot of days I think the world is just too fast for me. Details are just details I guess- but things seen and heard can always be so much more when time allows. Sitting at the piano my heart feels heavy and truly I am torn apart by the fact that I will never be able to give it enough time. I've sat with a schedule and tried fruitlessly to make ( Read more... )

Blair has been lying to our landlord about our dead cat for 3 months. The cat was in this house when we moved in and we adopted her. Our crazy landlord 'rescued her' from the last tenants, and therefore was extremely attached to her(as she is one of those token 'crazy cat ladies'). This morning's conversation between Blair and I ( Read more... )

Our neighbors have a clothesline that we can see from Blair's computer. I like to watch them hanging sheets because the whole process is delicate and extremely romantic. Right now the part that I can see between a lilac tree and another that is covered in ivy is full of beaded water, which looks like glass because it is very dark today. It is ( Read more... )