Thanksgiving

Wherein our beloved friends joined us for a vegetarian feast...

May you be blessed with good friends,
And learn to be a good friend to yourself,
Journeying to that place in your soul where
There is love, warmth, and feeling.
May this change you.

- John O'Donohue  (For Friendship)

The Mother of All Giveaways

"There is only one rule 
On this Wild Playground...
Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun" - Hafiz

The lovely Drucilla Pettibone of Faeriecology is hosting a HUGE giveaway.  Now you have a chance to win one of my Spiderweb Talismans!   Good LUCK...

The Day

With Light

Around me the trees stir in their leaves 
and call out, "Stay awhile." 
The light flows from their branches. 
And they call again, "It's simple," they say, 
"and you too have come 
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled 
with light, and to shine." - Mary Oliver

Two days off from school for two besties.  There was weaving, and imaginary wars, and peace treaties, and a hike, and deer and scooters.  It was simple.  We were filled.

The Answer to Isabel's Question

"If you could do a dance/striptease for anyone (famous, not famous, someone you know, someone you've never met, living dead, male, female. anyone.) who would it be?"

To which I replied:
Walt Whitman,
ee. cummings
and Hafiz.

Except... I would begin bare
standing in the forest, then
I would cover my body with their poems
beginning with places I feel them the most.

I imagine Walt would be a gentleman about it.
He would take off his hat,
press his hands together as if in prayer
and say, "Your very flesh shall be a great poem".

Edward would dash toward me
sweep me up in his arms
passionately proclaiming,
"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows".

Hafiz would clap
joyfully and with tears
shouting,
"You have not danced so badly, my dear, O my sweet crushed angel"!

(Photo by D. Pople)

Skate Park

Later that day, they headed to the mountains for a father & son camping trip. 

"It was cold", he said, "but I slept through it...and for breakfast we made the best eggs ever".