I love street art. While traveling the world, street art, murals, graffiti, give you invaluable insight to the local culture. What inspires the local people to speak out through their paint? What angers people enough to cause the to take to walls? Sometimes, often, people just want […]
Flowering yellow Happiness in a long stem Calmly in a storm Last night we spent the evening in a small town up the California north coast. Rain and huge waves crashing ashore created a soothing lullaby. Have you ever fallen asleep to the sounds of the ocean […]
Heavy but weightless My heart is also my brain Shimmering and bold
The month of January has not been too kind to me throughout the last six years. I am hoping that this January I can be a bit more settled. No snow. No cross-country moves. Just a bit of mourning for my mom and my beloved dog […]
The volcano awaits! Nothing more exciting than flying into a piece of earth where everything is both diverging and converging and one’s personal space is a fiery air. They wanted to breath in the ash-sooted air and feel fire on their skins one last time before the end of the life […]
I was roadkill Left to rot I was roadkill Then I was not I was disconnected from life Others ignoring the lifeless bodies on the roads I was destined for more But then I was roadkill Rumble strips and salt licks No refuge or shelter I was roadkill Left […]
Today, way back in 1610, Galileo Galilei sighted four of Jupiter’s moons. The four moons were the first group of objects found to orbit another planet. Galileo went on to name them Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto and set the course for astronomy, telecommunications and movies. Well, in a convoluted, […]
The bakery called to her after her strenuous morning workout. She went to have coffee surrounded by others so that she wouldn’t cry causing the heavily-sugared coffee to bubble. She sat with her croissant and latte dreaming of what was next. Around-the-world sailing? She couldn’t swim, though. […]
There is an an old piece of weather folklore that notes “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor’s warning”. Red sky at morning is said to signal rain.” But what about red rain? I have always loved the Peter Gabriel song of Red Rain. It is […]
Today my son had his first ferris wheel ride. When he got back down to Earth he squeeled uncontrollably as he noted “that was awesome”. And in that moment I was reminded of one of the great delights of having a child-especially one that loves the world. As […]
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