Sunday, May 16, 2010

anniversary, of many things



a year of beginnings and endings,
openings and closings,
and all that stuff in between.
i am continually surprised, amused, bewildered.
what a long, strange trip it has been, and continues to be.


12 comments:

  1. Moved to Vegas a year ago?
    Started taking pictures a year ago?
    "Once more and we'll play it all the way through and we'll get it right."
    Let's make this our motto, O.K.?
    And I thought I could only ever listen to the Beatles do Blackbird.
    Fab, totally fab!

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  2. kass-i like that motto! and yeah, i really like this version of "blackbird." this past year has been such an eye-, mind-, and heart-opener, it's tough to enumerate them all.

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  3. Ah, you beat me to it! I have a blog anniversary coming up, too.

    Keep on tripping!

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  4. kirk-sorry, didn't mean to steal thunder. can't wait to hear your trip!

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  5. Nah, there was no thunder involved. Sometime next week I'm going to put up my very first post. Once you read it, you'll wonder why I ever bothered to continue blogging.

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  6. kirk-ah, good. and no, i don't wonder why you continued. everything improves with experience. i'm old enough to know.

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  7. "Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion - of fun, love, or something that will outlast you - so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions." ~Terri Guillemets

    Great pic!!

    loveNlight
    Gabi

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  8. gabi, i love that quote. it has jarred me out of the rut i've been in, and made me look anew.
    thank you.

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  9. A poem for your poppies.....

    TRW

    Poppies
    Mary Oliver

    The poppies send up their
    orange flares; swaying
    in the wind, their congregations
    are a levitation

    of bright dust, of thin
    and lacy leaves.
    There isn't a place
    in this world that doesn't

    sooner or later drown
    in the indigos of darkness,
    but now, for a while,
    the roughage

    shines like a miracle
    as it floats above everything
    with its yellow hair.
    Of course nothing stops the cold,

    black, curved blade
    from hooking forward—
    of course
    loss is the great lesson.

    But I also say this: that light
    is an invitation
    to happiness,
    and that happiness,

    when it's done right,
    is a kind of holiness,
    palpable and redemptive.
    Inside the bright fields,

    touched by their rough and spongy gold,
    I am washed and washed
    in the river
    of earthly delight—

    and what are you going to do—
    what can you do
    about it—
    deep, blue night?

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  10. tregina-what a marvelous poem! i love the line that light is an invitation to happiness. do we accept that invitation? umm, sometimes.
    thank you.

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