- The Los Angeles homeless population and I, waiting together for the downtown L.A.Public Library to open/we lined up in orderly fashion when the security guard opened the doors/entered in single silent file/we shared the second floor/I in my carrel, writing/they in theirs, sleeping or reading/a kind of solidarity/we did not disturb each other/I love that public libraries are open to the homeless/more open than most churches/how is that?
- Big Sur/OMG/Big Sur
- The thing about Big Sur: that its carved rugged beauty, ever moving, has been there for millions of years, since long before we evolved to admire it/we're not the reason it's there/why the beauty?
- Sunset over the Pacific Ocean/view from Nepenthe/nice photographer
- Torrey Pines/cone from Moe's golf outing/this pine cone deserves its own blog post/as does Big Sur/but I cower in the face of their magnificence/the pine cone's one-in-a-millionness/Big Sur's one-and-onliness/my pencil goes still
- The Redwoods/OMG/and the Sequoias/like Elaine of Seinfeld again/describing hell:-)
- Olallieberry Inn/olallieberry jam/the word as delectable as the fruit/a berry's berry
- Biking across Golden Gate Bridge with eight revised chapters on my back to give to editor in Sausalito at Cibo
- The views from the bridge/the sun on SF/on Alcatraz/on Sausalito/a fogless morning
- The good pinch of muscle/leaning into SF hills
- The sea lions on Pier 39
- Savoring the food in Chinatown and North Beach
- The woman who wanted only 25 cents/her scratched and bleeding throat, her twisted limbs/her rheumy eyes/her Chinese accent/her satisfaction with a quarter/A QUARTER/when my wallet was full
- The vast table of clouds from the Airtran window/BEING above the clouds/IN the poetic welkin/not the first time/yet the first time
- Yellow cast of fall light through the color-turned woods welcoming us home
- Leaves/green when we left/red on return
- Air/transformed from mushy to crisp
- Pinestraw cushion on the swing
- dkm
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5 comments:
Welcome back Deb, we missed you :o)
It looks like you had a marvelous time. Though the homeless and the scratchy throated lady sound sad and scary. I will look forward to the more detailed blog posts :o))
re Nano chick. They were fertile eggs given to me. I put them under a broody hen who kept them warm until a couple of days before they were due to hatch. She decided she had had enough of sitting and took off. When I found the eggs they were cold but in hope that they may still be alive I put them under another hen. Only 3 out of 6 chicks hatched and the hen left the nest with them in tow. I cleaned out the nest and that's when I noticed the unhatched egg with wee crack in it etc... Nano. Once she had recovered she was put out with the hen and 3 chicks. Mother hen welcomed her and everyone was happy. Although one of the others did die due to being sickly and the dark one in the photo escaped the pen and, I would imagine, ended up as cat tucker!
What an amazing life you lead---so closely connected to the earth!
You are clearly someone who appreciates the whole spectrum of what is presented to you .. from the amazing large .. to the seemingly less significant. Well done. :)
Takes one to know one! It's a trait I suspect can also be found in a person who thinks about earthworms after an earthquake :-) It's also why I'm looking forward to your blog!
Big Sur from Nepenthe. Oh my. Heaven on earth I think. So glad to share this memory with you!
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