May You Have A Cherry Day

A Tree Spoke To Me

With so much drama in the L-B-C, It’s kinda hard bein Snoop D-O-double-G

Conflicted and Afflicted
I am supposed to be traveling over the mountains to beautiful, scenic Twisp, Washington right now to spend the weekend with some of my favorite super women. They are having an awesome workshop and hafla event. Alas, I’m not feeling well and with the seasonal diseases lurking, I am not willing to push my chances. I really want to go, so I’m bummed out more than usual by this headache and sore throat. *sigh* On a brighter note, it does mean I get to snuggle in with my husband for the weekend and drink lots of fluids and eat soup. And that is never a bad thing.

Gleaned: October 20th through October 29th
Glean: (verb) to col­lect or gather any­thing lit­tle by lit­tle or slowly. I glean the web, gath­er­ing bits of infor­ma­tion, links, pho­tos and quotes. Here are some bits that I gleaned October 20th through October 29th. Enjoy! The world’s best pancake recipe The 101 Best Music Videos of the Decade. The Tarot as a Tool for Writing Your Novel C

Some Thoughts Just Brewing
It’s been so long I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve all given up on me. But I am still here. I have been reading and thinking more than expressing. I just finished a book, loaned to me by my friend Kate, about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. I also began reading some poetry by Mary Oliver around the same time. The general effect was to start me thinking on poetry, myth, nature and the muse. This is all on the heels of reading Twyla Tharp’s Creative Habit, a book that hammered away on routine, ritual and habit in the creative spaces of the mind. My creative psyche has been bombarded with a resonant and persistent message. You have nothing to say because you continue to say not

Gleaned: September 30th through October 13th
Glean: (verb) to col­lect or gather any­thing lit­tle by lit­tle or slowly. I glean the web, gath­er­ing bits of infor­ma­tion, links, pho­tos and quotes. Here are some bits that I gleaned September 30th through October 13th. Enjoy! Iron Idiom – Beautiful wrought iron gates in nature themes. doubleTwist – An alternative to iTunes Transparency – from GOOD Magazine – Awesome infographics.

Gleaned: September 16th through September 21st
Glean: (verb) to col­lect or gather any­thing lit­tle by lit­tle or slowly. I glean the web, gath­er­ing bits of infor­ma­tion, links, pho­tos and quotes. Here are some bits that I gleaned September 16th through September 21st. Enjoy! Polyphasic Sleep: Facts and Myths – “Healthy humans cannot entrain polyphasic sleep without a degree of sleep deprivation. It is not possible to sleep polyphasically and retain one’s maximum creativity, alertness, and health in the long run.” And here is the counter point. Quite long and somewhat dense but sort of funny if you take the time to read it.