At first, some cluster of days ago, I imagined that this entry might be a list ( Read more... )

- you are my Family.
You are my Family."

*

As is my ever-more surprising and amazing Mother. (Whom I prefer to call Super-Mum.)

Which relates to each and every one of you reading this, because she sent me this: http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1768566764632&source=jl999
and really,

While it's meant for me, I think it's meant for each of ( Read more... )

Since my words are more-or-less swingdancing across the screen, to be writing here again with all of you: And since a certain girl named Alisha should have my rushed attempt at a mini-tribute as public as possible (and alas, I lack access to billboards at the moment ( Read more... )

Here.

2-3 weeks, and then pretty much directly into the next stage of Chronic Lyme treatment. Which in the extreme could mean I don't (at least from this realm of consciousness) see Portland again; but in my determined, swollen, hope-pumping heart may (may may maybe) allow me to return by Spring/Summer. But details like that are for the next ( Read more... )

I woke this morning, still half-inside of a beautiful dream world. Images of familiar faces and dancing, glittered bodies - fluttering at the edges of my consciousness. You were there - and you, and you. Stretching cat-like then curling into myself, orange blanket up to my chin - I remember this, a brief moment of near-consciousness - then my ( Read more... )

Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment
when, for one moment, nothing happens
no what-have-I-to-do-today-list -- for maybe
half a minute, the rush of traffic stops.
The whir of I should be, I should be, I should be
slows to silence.

(( marie howe))

*I duck between familiar stones and footholds; memory keeps half a step ahead of my bare feet. I'm ( Read more... )

Sometimes ( Read more... )

For the next two and a half weeks - aside from a short visit from the superheroine sister - it will be just me and the kitties in the quiet grace of this house ( Read more... )

A dream, I dream ( Read more... )

A thought: I probably shouldn't have dove back into Livejournal-Land, with what may have seemed a misleading ferocity. Which isn't to say that I won't be posting here - more that I shouldn't (can't) be as precise, just now, about hours or days ( Read more... )