July 31, 2015

Today: What Will Happen Today???? - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 Today - Once in A Blue Moon...


I often notice there's more for me to feel and therefore also to understand and work through with both full and new moons.  Beginning my day today, I therefore can't help but wonder what this "special" blue moon will have in store for me... What will happen to me? What will I notice?  Will I make an unfamiliar decision or travel in a new direction? How will it feel? Regardless of what happens today, I'm primed to NOTICE what I see, do, think and feel as well as anything different or unusual about how my day today unfolds... 

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July 30, 2015

Today: Crickets & Thunder... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

A Poem: Summer Sounds... 


On a background of chirping crickets
I wonder if they ever tire...
Intermittently a cicada's buzzing whine
Pierces the air...
While thunder rumbles in the distance...
Sounds of summer...


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July 11, 2015

Today: A HOT Summer's Day... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 A "HOT" Poem & Some Music: 


The air
Hot and
Pregnant with rain
Beneath a hazy sun...
Sparrows
Twitter tales in the pines...
Daisies delicately nod 
Agreement...


The day's steamy, sultry flavor is complemented by Didier Malherbe & Loy Ehrlich's album, "An Ambient Voyage to North Africa" (available from hmvdigital.ca).  I listen, while chopping and freezing some fresh vegetables I bought at the farmer's market this morning.  A typical summer Saturday....



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June 28, 2015

Today: Alone with Feelings... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 ALONE & A Poem Sort of... 


This morning...
Just me,
Alone 
With nothing to do...

A cool, 
Misty, grey Sunday...

Some slow, bluesy jazz   
On the melancholy side...

Feeling... 
Not happy
Not sad    
But simply content...

A momentary resting place 
In  
The eye of the storm   
Of  
Life's roller-coaster ride...



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June 23, 2015

Today: A Look at "Good" & "Bad".... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 "Good" & "Bad" - A Thought: 


In the world, "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."  Hamlet Act II, Scene II, William Shakespeare

After spending copious hours yanking grass out of my garden spaces, I'm thinking if people weren't so in love with "green carpets" that grass would be classed as a noxious weed...  Not only will it grow in almost any soil, in shade or sun and spreads rapidly by underground roots, which can range far, but it also self-seeds with abandon.  


Thinking something is "good" or "necessary" makes it difficult to see its "down side".  The whole picture always includes both - the "good" and the "bad".... A "simple" two-dimensional truth would seem to be nothing but a lie... The world, I think, is neutral....  It is our perspective, feelings and thoughts which give it its apparent weight...  since we are very complex beings the "good " and "bad" we feel are also complex and not simple to either understand or apply....

As a result of the attachment to "green carpets", a multi-million dollar industry has developed around the care of grass, ensuring the continued growth of such carpets.  This lends additional support to the attachment and makes it very difficult to see grass as it really is or imagine any kind of alternative to a "green carpet".  


Grass's classification seems to be simply a matter of perspective and habit...  However, habitual ways of seeing and thinking always have far spreading roots and strong supports which aren't easy to see or understand, much less change or shift..... 




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June 21, 2015

Today: A Pleasant Surprise... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 A Surprising Discovery: 


I planted two lavender plants in my garden: a Munstead and a Phenomenal.  I took a risk planting them because I've never liked lavender at all! However, my only prior experience with lavender was with the essential oil and the dried herb. The fresh herb, I find, is VERY different. Furthermore, I've discovered I can cook with it!

The Munstead is still a very small plant, so I'm letting it rest, grow and get established.  The Phenomenal is larger, so it's the one I've been using.  Consequently, I haven't been able to compare the difference in flavor between the two kinds of lavender. That's for the future; another exploration I'd like to do sometime farther down the road when the Munstead is ready...


In the meantime, I've been enjoying exploring all kinds of flavor combinations with the Phenomenal... I started using it in place of rosemary, but have gone on from there to add it to many dishes - even strange combinations like with a curry and have enjoyed each dish to which I've added its special flavor.  It doesn't take much; one flower, two small leaves, and maybe an inch of the stalk minced is enough to give plenty of flavor to a dish... I've added the minced stalk for the final five minutes or so of cook time and the rest has been added just before serving.  I don't know if the minced stalk really requires the cook time, but it's quite crisp, so I've done it this way.  Maybe it too can be added just before serving with the rest.  Another exploration for the future...


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June 11, 2015

Today: The Changes That Happen... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 Changing Circumstances: 


Baby grackles first flight...
The sun sets on an empty nest
Tonight 
Cats on the prowl...
Parents in a flutter....


Earlier today I found a male, ruby-throated hummingbird dead beside my garden.  I buried him next to the lovage...  I've been close, within a foot, but I've never actually touched a hummingbird before.... Such beautiful iridescent, olive-green plumage... the red at his throat only visible when the feathers fanned... He was SO tiny and light-weight... SO fragile and delicate.... his beak such a wonder... but with a broken neck, he won't fly more.... Sad to cover such intricate, delicacy with heavy, black earth.... 



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May 31, 2015

Today: Dining In...- To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

Eating can be such a Pleasure:


At home, with good-feeling, tasty food to eat - beautifully garnished with delectable flower petals, fresh from the garden; I feel wealthier than a millionaire dining in the finest of restaurants...


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May 26, 2015

Today: Stopping & Savoring... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

I Stop & Listen, then Write to Savor... 


Yesterday...
For the first time in more than fifty years

For a long time
I stood
Just listening...
To a soft rain falling
Enjoying its music
Feeling gratitude...

Sad to have waited so long
To do just this...

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May 25, 2015

Today: What is Best??? - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 Wonderings About "Best"...


Unlike other years, this year the municipality isn't clearing the winter's sand and salt from the main street where my home is.  Although they've cleaned the side streets, they haven't cleaned the main street. I didn't see them doing any cleaning last week, so maybe cleaning the main street isn't part of this year's plan...

Today, I got tired of all the sand and salt blowing around, so I got out my broom and shovel.  The winter's accumulation is now neatly piled on the far north west corner of the property beside the fire hydrant.  It made a large pile, at least 4 feet wide by 2 feet high. Although it will still be blown around by the wind, I think it will be less as there are fewer exposed surfaces...


After being indoors for most of the winter, I'm VERY hungry for fresh outside air and exercise.  Even the hoards of rapacious black flies couldn't eradicate today's pleasure. They dampened it for sure, but I still REALLY enjoyed drinking in the fresh air with some physical work.  I saw some things too...  


I saw, that for small things like this, it's often better when they aren't done automatically for me. The usual street cleaning by the municipality, would have deprived me of a benefit... My body feels both stronger and healthier for today's work. I gained much more figuring out what I could do with the sand and salt than I would have if the municipal government had cleared it away for me! Frequently it seems, if it's possible for me to do something for myself, even though it usually involves a difficult stretch - one I'm not sure I'm able to make, it's better when I make the attempt... and often I'm pleasantly surprised by what I am able do.  As a result, I began to wonder if we don't often try to do more for each other than is really good and necessary...   


Thinking back, I see, when "necessary" things haven't been done; I've often discovered they weren't REALLY needed at all!  Not only did I not need the help, I didn't need to do this "necessary" thing myself either... Other times, the "necessary" thing was still needed, but it needed to be done differently and I was only able to see the unfamiliar, new way when the usual thing didn't happen right away as I wanted and expected...


I'm therefore thinking about "helpfulness"...  Perhaps it isn't always such a "good" thing... Perhaps, sometimes, a little less can REALLY be better...


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May 19, 2015

Today: Planting My Garden... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 Gardening Thoughts: 


I've just finished planting my vegetable garden...  Even though I started sprouting the plants at the beginning of April, most of them are still VERY small and tiny - just seedlings. Each year, with my garden, I face the fragile, tenuousness of life and my food supply... Each year I wonder if plants who are so tiny and small can actually survive and grow in a world which isn't always gentle and kind. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, but regardless of their "success" or "failure", I get to feel ALL of how it feels...

Today one of four Shungiku, (Edible Chrysanthemum -Leucanthemum coronarium) plants disappeared... Yesterday, like most of the tiny plants I've just planted, its four leaves were nice and green and getting bigger with each passing day. I felt happy to see it doing so well... but today there was only a small bare stock and a few shards of leaf left lying on the ground. If, like last year, the same fate befalls the other three, I won't be tasting this delicacy this year...

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May 11, 2015

Today: Quiet... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

In the Stillness... 


In the darkness
Of night's fall...
When birds and people
Cease their chatter...
One can hear
The quiet songs
Of frogs and crickets...


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May 6, 2015

Today: A Spring Day... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...


Spring Arrives... 



Time...
Some warm sun
A little refreshing rain
Magically, suddenly
Surrounding hillsides emerge
Enveloped in a hazy mist
Of pale green and rose...
Filling the air with a genuine
Spring-fresh scent...



As in my April 21st post (here); again I see a "dark, shadowy" side, where "tree work" is done invisibly and within; which, when the time is ripe...suddenly and magically, becomes a visible reality in the outer world...


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May 4, 2015

Today: I have a Strange Day... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

Today's - Mix:


A Strange, Crazy, Mixed-up day...


A violent wind whips through the trees, dislodging anything old and dead which still would cling...


I begin my day... 

Listening to unfamiliar music from Vietnam, I discard my answering machine/phone. I have trouble throwing things out; especially things that still work like this phone. It still works, but the battery's dead. After only six years, replacements are unavailable...and even if available would cost more than I paid for the phone with the battery... The replacement service from the phone company came at first, all in French, with instructions I didn't understand. Thankfully this was easily changed to English... I think I've set it up like I want, but it's still to be tested with time and use... 

Things working and not working, today come one on top of the other...  Expected things don't arrive, unexpected things do... I've shared how it began, but the day has continued with equally strange flavors emanating forth from each thing I've touched...



The Vietnamese music I listened to:

Le Ca Tru Thai Ha Ensemble - Nord Vietnam 
Huong Thanh - Vietnam  Musique du Cai Long
Huong Thanh - Les fleurs du levant
Popular Vietnamese Music - Truong Thi Quynh Hanh

All are available from hmvdigital.ca, so if you're so inclined you can listen to clips...

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April 30, 2015

Today: Bird Song... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...


A Beginning & An Ending...


Each evening


Just before night falls,
In the silent darkness,
A solitary robin chirps...
The final notes
Of a day's bird song.


Each morning


With the first, faint glimmers of returning light,
In the silent darkness,
A solitary robin sings...
The first notes
Of a day's choral symphony of bird song.


SPRING!


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April 21, 2015

Today: Sun & Shadow... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

Light & Dark - Sun & Shadow... 


This morning - The Sunny Side:


What magic!
A plant...
Who sprouts forth
With fresh, new growth
From the ashes of
Last year's dried, dead leaves...


This afternoon - The Shadow Side:

I face the reality that in the outside world I inhabit, this wonderful, feeling magic only happens sometimes... Sometimes things stop unexpectedly, mid-stream and die... sometimes things are still born... sometimes they look oh SO full of promise, but ARE empty or dead...

Sometimes... Sometimes I don't feel happy or wonderful... sometimes I feel tired, sad or frightened...
Sometimes...


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April 17, 2015

Today: Appreciation... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

Thoughts on Appreciation & Gratitude:


Today I'm reminded that I don't really appreciate a benefit until I've managed to do without for a time.  I feel this with my apartment after being "homeless"; living in women's shelters for three and a half years and today I feel this with my bedroom window...

I've just fixed this window for the summer... I know this doesn't sound like much, but it makes a big difference to me.  This window is HUGE occupying almost the entire west wall of my small bedroom.  The bitterly cold. winter winds and the blisteringly hot, afternoon, summer sun beat in mercilessly. The frame is warped so it doesn't either open or close properly, allowing both wind and flies to wander through at will. A real window which works doesn't seem to be in the cards for me, so I've jury-rigged a solution which is more air tight but still allows me to open part of the window in summer and close it in winter... 


Two years ago I covered half of the window with some cardboard covered on the outside with plastic bubble wrap and finished with aluminum foil.  Once this was caulked in place, it made an enormous difference to both the amount of heat in the summer and cold in winter.  


This past autumn I manufactured a fix for the part of the window which can still be opened and closed, even if it doesn't do these things very well.  To a wood frame, from some old quarter round molding I found in the basement, I added some more bubble wrap with scrunched up plastic bags taped along the edges. Using thumb tacks and more molding to hold it in place, this pressure fit into the opening not too badly. This winter was a REAL test and it worked pretty well.


This spring I added another piece of cardboard finished with foil on the outside, to fit next to the piece of cardboard which was already in place.  I'm in the process of doing artwork on the bedroom side, so it will look OK.  


Just now, I've removed the bubble wrapped frame from the part which opens and closes and stored it behind the cardboard piece I added this spring.  I then added a dark, bamboo shade with heavy drapery behind.  The bamboo, by itself, I think will work well to block the street lights at night while allowing air to flow through and I can pull the drapery behind it when I want to block the hot afternoon sun...  I'm planning another piece of artwork to use at the top for a valance over the entire window frame... someday...


Although what I've done functions more or less acceptably and will eventually look fine once the artwork is "finished", I know if a REAL window is ever in the cards for me, I'll appreciate its functionality, in a way I never could have before... Having done without, I won't be taking it for granted...
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April 11, 2015

Today: Winds of Change - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...-


Change...  stepping into the unknown... 



All night long
The winds of change
Rattled my windows
And howled through the pine boughs
This morning...
After a late start
I begin an unplanned day...


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April 6, 2015

Today: Spring Takes Its Time... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...


Spring's - A Process: 


Jack Frost is back...
With more delicate art work 
For my windows...
I work on my table top
While
Wondering which plants
To start for my garden...





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April 3, 2015

Today: Beginning of Spring... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...


 Signs of Spring...



It seems the waters of March run a little late this year - in April....

Yesterday, the first of the Spring birds arrived... A cloud of male grackles and red-winged blackbirds descended out of nowhere.  sporting bright, new, breeding plumage, they were busy practicing their songs in readiness for the arrival of the females... 

They reminded me of young teenagers, arriving separately for a dance... The girls anxiously casting sidelong glances at the boys, while absently twittering together.  Their attention clearly focused on the boys, rather than on their conversation... The boys talking together in their own separate group, regarding the girls with equal nervousness...  All were wanting to "dance", but unsure of the steps or the outcome... 

Watching the birds yesterday, I wondered if rather than birds and animals being like people, as I've so often thought before, it isn't the other way around.... Perhaps it's people who are like animals and birds..... Hmmmm......

Now, today a Spring day AT LAST!  In the lee of the wind, I don't even need a coat!  After the long, cold winter, I'm VERY hungry for some sun... I soak it in while drying my hair in its warmth...

Most things in my garden look quite dead.... I'm hoping the lovage, lemon balm and sorrel have made it through the harsh winter, but for now, I see no signs of life...  However, the thyme and savory still look green, so I think they've survived......  

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March 30, 2015

Today: Winter's End - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

Snow... Again... 

Snow falls again...
End of March
With winter's icy grip 
Still strong and vigorous...
I appreciate one more day 
Of slow, quiet, solitude
Winter's pace...


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March 28, 2015

Today: My Table Top... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

 Exploring My Creative Process... 


Today I'm working on a top for my table...  I've been working on a top for this table for more than eleven years.  When the table first entered my life, it was in very sorry shape.  The top was badly worn with peeling paint.  It was clear too, from its many dints and bangs, that it had seen some hard times, but I liked its lines. I was sure, it could still be beautiful and functional...so I started to work.  

The first thing I did was to sand the top to remove the peeling paint.  There was nothing I could do about the dints and bangs, so I let them be.  Anyway it felt good to reinforce the idea that things didn't have to be machine made perfect to be beautiful... After all I've been banged and scared and, and, and...too... so I wasn't machine made perfect either...  

The next step was to coat the legs and top with fresh paint.  I chose black as my base color.  It would provide an appropriate background for a picture of dark brown hands making a drum, which I glued down as a centerpiece. To reinforce the "primitive" feel of the picture, I did a zig-zag design in gold paint around the edge of the table.  The design work done, I needed to make it functional.

I needed a surface I could work on...  This is where I ran into difficulties.  I wanted something to go on top of the paint and picture which would give a hard, durable surface, without impairing the visibility of the design.  Water based Varathane seemed like my best option, so I put down layer after layer after layer...  I started with a gloss exterior, but this wasn't hard enough, so I sanded this down and started fresh with gloss interior...  This gave a nice, mirror like finish, but seemed to scratch if I so much as looked at it.  I downgraded to a semi-gloss which wasn't quite so prone to show scratches.  It still scratched badly, but  I didn't know what else to do.  I considered covering the whole top with glass. This I felt was too expensive, too heavy, too prone to breakage and intolerant of temperature change so I couldn't rest anything hot there.  Plexiglass wasn't quite as heavy, but it wasn't as clear either and the other difficulties remained. Consequently I discarded both of these as possibilities.

Unable to find a solution which improved on the semi-gloss Varathane I'd used, I decided to leave the top as it was and use a smaller Masonite piece with soft felt feet, to cover a little less than half the table.  This piece was small enough to leave my design visible and although it was also black, it was more rough and ready and not as smooth, so it didn't show scratches so badly... When I needed a functional work space, I did what I needed to do on this piece.  However, it was less than half a table top and often I found I really needed a larger surface.  I needed the whole table top as a functional work space...  What could I do???

After eleven years it was clear that my use for a beautiful looking table was less than my need for a functional work space.  As a result, I decided what I wanted to do was to create something similar to the half-sized piece I'd done, but which would cover the whole table.  I wanted a larger piece which could be easily removed for the few occasions when the original design could be displayed and something less durable, but beautiful would be appropriate. However, I wasn't that pleased with the half sized piece I'd done, I wanted to try something different...

After a lot of thought I decided a cork surface would look nice, not show scratches, be washable and not be sensitive to heat.  I got two pieces of cork which when joined together would cover the entire top of the table. Joining them wasn't super easy, but with some burlap, some ribbon, some paint, some glue and a lot of ingenuity I managed something acceptable.  I'd originally thought I'd coat this too with the water based Varathane, so I used this on the back to test it.  NOT GOOD!  It was too shiny and destroyed the look of the cork,  However, as I still needed something to protect the surface and make it easy to wash, I decided to try oiling the "good" side instead of using the Varathane. It was a very different surface to oil.  I needed to use much more oil than I have with wood and it was very difficult to buff, but in the end I managed to get rid of the excess oil and I had a washable surface which still looked like cork. To keep the cork firmly in place, I used an additional, separate layer of rubber-like fabric on top of the table under the cork...  At last I had a full sized top for my table!  

It was OK, but not great.  Even after a year the cork didn't lie really flat.  With the rubber underneath it didn't slide around, but a glass set on it was very prone to tip. It was clear, I needed to add another flatter layer to which the cork could be glued. I thought of Masonite, but this would be quite heavy and as the table has rounded corners I'd have to get help cutting it. This was going to be difficult... 

However, I realized I have LOTS of cardboard.  It's light weight and I can cut it to shape myself, so I decided to use this as my base. Today I started working on this new layer. On top of the cardboard base, I'll add some layers of paper mâché.  I've done other smaller pieces with similar materials and have ended up with something surprisingly hard and quite flat.  For the final layer of paper mâché I plan to use paper from gardening and seed catalogues whose pictures give wonderful color which I can augment with some paint, to create an interesting abstract.  I hope... To protect it, I've just discovered a spray for artwork which looks like it will clearly show the colors of my design, but be washable too, without adding any extra shine.  I can use either this or a satin Varathane. Right now I'm leaving this choice open.  I'll see how I feel when I finish the paper mâché work... In any case, once this paper mâché/cardboard layer has been glued to the cork, the cork should lie flat and I hope to have three options for my table: the original design when a fragile surface is acceptable and for a true working surface I should be able to use either the abstract paper mâché design for times when a hard working surface is needed or the cork if a softer one will do...  I hope so, but we'll have to wait to see...  Maybe future modifications or amendments will still be required...

An Update:  When I started, I thought I would use pictures from seed catalogues for the paper mâché work and I started doing it this way, but ended up doing something MUCH more interesting using old engagement calendars. However, this NEVER made it to my table top... You can see it on my 7th post about my paper mache art...  

For several years I made do with the cork top I'd made, but I wasn't really satisfied with it even though it did eventually lie down flat.  At some point, I no longer remember when, I decided to try the cork top without the rubber fabric underneath... WELL.. a surprise was in store for me... The rubber had permanently etched the Varathane, so my table no longer had a mirror like finish.  I was upset at first and tried to smooth it out a little with some very fine sandpaper... It looked better after this, so I've left it this way.   Then in July of 2023, when I was evicted from my old apartment (pursuant to a court order against my landlord for his lack of building repair and maintenance) and moved to my new one (which is SO MUCH nicer) I decided the nicer space really required the design to show, so I removed the cork top entirely, added a black rubber cutting mat (which is VERY useful for doing my art projects) to the half of the table I use most and left the other half open so the design of the hands making the drum is clearly visible... and I'm now content with the resulting finish on the Varathane.  It works just FINE!!!  Getting here though, has certainly been a LONG process with a winding, twisting trail full of ups and downs.

So often I find, beginnings are just a place from which to start and are not what is really meant to BE... Creative paths seem to seldom have straight lines; leading directly from conceptual idea to finished product. Frequently they are winding, twisting, curving trails; which once embarked on, take me in surprising, unexpected directions...

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March 25, 2015

Today: "Book of Small" - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...

  Thoughts on "small"... 


Today I'm reminded of Emily Carr's "Book of Small"...  I was reading this book when my father was dying and lost it in the hospital during one of my visits...  Emily Carr's book was about her childhood and losing it when I did, helped confirm my feeling that I was leaving childhood behind with the steps I was taking with my father... 

However, now, here on this blog, I feel I'm writing my own "Book of Small".  Unlike Emily Carr's book, my book is not about my childhood experiences. Rather, it is about the small things in life...the basic experience "stuff" of life. I'm re-connecting to "small", but in a different way... This time, I feel I'm leaving much of the adult, human world, with all of its scientific explanations, recipes and "knowledge" behind and connecting instead to a "child-like" place - which is more open and receptive to life just as it comes and feels. For me, it's a fairy tale like place; where awe, wonder and magic still predominate, but are balanced by: vulnerability, confusion and unknowing as well as by the fear which lurks in the shadows behind these...  




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March 21, 2015

Today: I enjoy dancing... - To Fall Like A Drop Of Rain...



   Music & Dancing... 


Today CBC's French web-radio at: icimusique.ca

genre: Monde - Ame

has played some VERY dance-able, slow, soulful music from around the globe - ranging from Arabia to India to South America to China and everything in between. Some exquisite treasures I've enjoyed!!!  The dancing feels VERY good too, after a week of heavy computer work...  


I still  have some computer work to do, but I'm hoping to finish this by the beginning of next week... so I can take a holiday from computer work for awhile and not do more than occasionally write posts here... 

Maybe... I'll have to wait to see if a computer holiday is in the cards for me...




This Post's Flavor(s): music, human



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