So I'm still keeping up with writing a poem a day and I've got about 25 papaya poems that are written as each papaya from my tree ripens and is picked. They make me quite happy and I found that even writing during my most fatigued days, I manage to get some decent poetry flowing. I've been reading lots of poets born in the 60's who are my age or ( Read more... )

A friend of mine called yesterday to let me know that they may have to move. They have been living in Ma'ili for over seven years and her girls are good friends with Imagine. They are behind two months on their rent and have to have it paid by Friday or will be evicted ( Read more... )

May all beings be free of houses with carpets and cats who vomit upon them. May I, in my next life be blessed with a simple yurt with a dirt floor and many dogs to sleep in the bed to keep me warm.

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My husband's close cousin died Monday. She'd been dying of bone cancer for quite some time and we were all expecting it, but she was thirty-four and had two kids Imagine's age. So we planned on sending Col and Imagine to Chicago when it happened for them to attend the funeral and Imagine could hang with the kids. They left Wednesday and I'm writing ( Read more... )

I was mistaken in believing that writing a poem a day would make me crazy. On the contrary it has helped me sleep far better than I have in years. Of course how could I know this would happen? I am so diligent at getting each one down, each day that I begint to spin poems out of everything during the day. Imagine found an albino slug today in the ( Read more... )

I started to drive myself a bit crazy during the winter months, getting caught up in reading as many new poets as I could. We'd go to the library and I'd just pull a couple poetry books off the shelf and take them home to read cover to cover. I thought I knew what I liked in poetry, to read and to write, until I started reading. And then I was ( Read more... )

We spent several weeks on the mainland. Metro riding in DC, trying to get people to smile. I forgot that people in DC are too suspicious of someone smiling at them on the metro to smile back. We got to hook up with friends in Maryland and beg them to come spend a few solid weeks with us on the island. Then it was grandparent (in-laws) visiting and ( Read more... )

Leaving Tues. night for the mainland to join Col in DC for 5 days. He just left this afternoon. And then Imagine and I are off to Georgia after that to visit my sis for a couple weeks. Imagine announced he was going to bring ALL his Pokemon cards with so he could teach his cousins and do trading with them. When I informed him that they would take ( Read more... )

I filled in for another yoga teacher this morning at the Won Buddhist temple in Makaha where Imagine and I go for service and meditation. It is an hour class that anyone can attend for free or for any donation they can manage. It is a beautiful space, windows all around with the mountains and trades blowing. The teacher who volunteers regularly to ( Read more... )

Two months ago I booked tickets for Imagine and I to meet up with his dad in DC while he was there for work and then after a few days fly down to Georgia to stay with my sister and the cousins for a couple weeks. Almost as soon as I booked the tickets I started having small flares with my illness- a little joint pain, more insomnia, difficulty ( Read more... )