A Gathering of Poetry | February 2024
As a person who finds a great deal of silliness with Valentine's Day and the whole idea that surrounds it... love poems are not my favorite. That is until I read José A. Alcántara's poem in Poetry of Presence II. (I mean a former construction worker, baker, commercial...
Unraveled Wednesday | 3.22.23
Greetings Unravelers! A small delight filled my brain as I typed the palindrome date... such a simple thing but delightful none the less. Which is perfect because it has been a week of delights! Delight Number One: A finished collar on my handspun sweater. It is...
Sometimes Monday | 3.20.23
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ― Rainer Maria Rilke It has been a March of All The Weather... we have had very warm days (72° F on the first!!), some very cold days (a low of 18° F over the weekend, sigh), winds, rain, snow,...
A Gathering Of Poetry | March 2023
Happy Third Thursday....aka Gathering of Poetry Day! In my search for a poem to share with you all, I read a lot of poetry. But one poem has stuck with me and I have thought about it every single day since I read it. It is a poem by Mary Oliver, who seems to have a...
Unraveled Wednesday | 3.15.23
By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again. Not that year. Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained...
Museum of Me – Science For Real Life | 3.10.23
If I look back on my school days... which I do with some regularity in my 60's... and I note two key things: If I was good at something, I wanted to do it all the time. If I was not good at something, I found ways to avoid doing it at all costs. Those two things sum...
Unraveled Wednesday | 3.8.23
Greetings Unravelers! It's been a week of incremental making... bits of knitting on several projects. First up, I finished Gnedward! Gnedward has had a wandering life... and along the way if he saw a button, he picked it up! He has an impressive collection of solitary...
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