As Only A River Can

Coming to them 
As only a river can– 
Touching every life it meets– 
That endlessly kind, that enduring.

- Mary Oliver


Last hike of 2018, before it rains again. Occoquan River, it’s an Algonquian word that means "at the end of the water".

The Body Electric: Pulse

A visit with my long time friend and her fam at the Hirshhorn for Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse and Kruger’s belief & doubt. Lunch at Museum of Native American. Afternoon at Air & Space and awe for the brave insanity of the space program. Dinner at Sandovan. Laughter. Memories. Conversations about Oumuamua, Fibonacci and the mysterious order of things, coincidence and congruence, and Jung’s Red Book as a devotional, and tsutsugamushi and the importance of human intuition in medicine. And missing her. And gratitude for the way our friendship spans time.

The Sleigh Has Landed

"It is in the imagination with which you perceive this world, 
and the gestures with which you honor it." - Mary Oliver.

Our annual Solstice party was delightful and in a blink it was Xmas. I made all mater of tasty eats during our winter break.  We had Marcella Hazan's cabbage soup on xmas eve, Chocolate bread, hot out of the oven Xmas morn and our usual Tomato Risotto for xmas Eve.  The jolly ole elf waited til near midnight to be sure the mancub was asleep before placing gifts beneath the tree. My son bounded into my room at 3:23 am squealing, “MOM wait til you see what Santa left in my stocking!” I mumbled that I was happy but go back to bed until daylight. He went back to bed then was up at 5 am. I finally crawled out of bed near 7, made myself a giant latte sprinkled with juniper sugar and watched him merrily unwrap his gifts.

 

Decking the halls...

Glass hinged ornaments to contain the tiny fallen nests I found. 

S is making me a spider ornament for xmas!

He said it was the best xmas ever.

Latte with juniper sugar sprinkle.

The best red lentil curry.

Galaxy smoothy bowl.

Tea from Myri

Grape Salsa!

To you and yours.

Time and Place

I will no longer be silent.  I will open my mouth and let the bees fly out.  Making all the things that I that represent the words.  Building metaphorical bridges to take me where I want to go.