Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Heart



I don't know if it is the cuteness or the good looks that are off the chart here...

How did my baby become a grown up?














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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Everything old is new again...




This is ancient graffito by now, but I was tickled because it resurfaced the same day Nu paid attention to Creep for the first time on the drive to school. And because I showed this to her, these are the lyrics she uses all the time now. We are weirdoughs. Ha.












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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Women's March 2019


One wouldn't be able to tell by this lone, sad, cold poster stuck to our Little Free Library--but it was a great Women's March today. Esp. if you were judging by the roomful of excited students who joined us for dinner.









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Friday, January 18, 2019

Northward Rant

I'm one sigh away
from freezing, I release
like a light bubble

like fluorescent nighttime
hospital--heart beats
in intervals: no no no

dropoffs pickups
activities... O my
hello, goodbye

I'm returning turning
I will come back
irresponsible

like that like this
like you can like
only this

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Thursday, January 17, 2019

On Being Sorry


I'm so sorry that the poet Mary Oliver died. 

I'm sorry too to say that everyone I follow kind of posted the same poem... and having so many people ask what I was planning to do with my "one wild and precious life" made me quite anxious. 



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from here to go-dhuli

our words tear paths as if we are oracles our touch gathers courage as though  there's no law for it  mosquitoes now follow us home  kno...