New Poem: Put Your Hands Up
Instead, let go, and yes, you can do it, put your hands up
all the way up.
Month: November 2014
New Pastel Landscape: Entering the Quarry Early in the Fall
I finished this pastel landscape yesterday. It is of an early Sunday morning about six weeks ago at the entrance to our quarry swimming hole, when the sun was sparkling on the newly turning leaves.
New Poem: Pay Attention
Heed with contemplation how incessant and perpetual and continuing and relentless such a list can be…
Book Review: The Language of Flowers
I wanted to like this popular book about redemption more than I did.
Movie Review: Tim’s Vermeer
I loved this film and give it 5 stars. It is fascinating on many different levels. It was interesting to watch someone pursue a hunch to such an exacting extent through such painstaking extremes, and follow it to captivating fruition.
My Newspaper Article About Evil
I think we will all ultimately experience evil as impotent, because we will each realize that we prefer to do and experience the will of divine good.
Recipe: Cilantro Lime Dressing
Harvesting the last of this year’s cilantro from the garden, we made a double batch of this wonderful dressing, which is healthy and light with a yogurt base, while jazzy with garlic.
Poem by Galway Kinnell: St. Francis and the Sow
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
New Gouache: Dreamtime
This piece mixes my appreciation for aboriginal art with my penchant for painting dots and circles.
Recipe: Zucchini Agrodolce
Of all the copious of new zucchini recipes I tried with our summer’s bumper crop, I liked this one the best.
Homeschool Park Days & Some Photos of our Youngest
I love how homeschool kids play, and even in the midst of writing college application essays and doing some intense coursework, this park time is scheduled in as sacrosanct.