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Musings on creativity, photography, spirituality, nature. And a few poems that have changed my life, by Francesca Bell, Linda McCarriston and Dylan Thomas.

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August 13, 2023

“It’s all an offering to God”- Rick Rubin

August 13, 2023

March 28, 2023

Diatomaceous Earth

March 28, 2023

So many steps we've taken
on this thread bare carpet
where you grew up, left home
and then returned, saying - incredulous
“I can't believe you're still here, Mom.”

March 28, 2023

August 27, 2022

Weeds

August 27, 2022

September 23, 2021

You Can Call Me Ma'am

September 23, 2021

Having turned forty-two, having menstruated
lo these thirty years, most often
on my hands and knees or curled, drugged
and sobbing, around the hot water bottle.

September 23, 2021

September 22, 2021

We know what we need

September 22, 2021

September 22, 2021

Healing The Mare

September 22, 2021

Just days after the vet came,
after the steroids that took
the fire out of the festering
sores--out of the flesh that in
the heat took the stings too
seriously and swelled into great
welts, wore thin and wept, calling
more loudly out to the green-
headed flies - I bathe you
and see your coat returning,
your deep force surfacing in a
new layer of hide: black wax
alive against weather and flies.

September 22, 2021

September 21, 2021

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

September 21, 2021

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

September 21, 2021

“It’s all an offering to God”- Rick Rubin

August 13, 2023

The moment I heard Rubin say this, I knew it was true. Allow anything counter to this to drop away. Stay centered in this truth as you create - and you can accomplish anything.