First up, BEFORE you even try to guess what these photos are depicting, let your imagination run wild a bit. Don’t worry about what they ARE, but what they could be. Do the images, and your imaginative interpretation of them, inspire anything in you? A song? A poem? A story, rhyme, painting, collage, pottery, interpretive [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
reporting the Wal-Mart murder
My husband & I heard about the New York state Wal-Mart tragedy yesterday, on the radio. I watched local news last night that was, at the time I tuned to it, more concerned with a structure fire and resulting death in Astoria than the mob scene and crime in New York.
So this morning I read [...]
3 days late, 4 days early: A 2-month confession
Do you even remember me? This amazing blog, this place that is my creative home that you thought I ran away from, has had so much new traffic and new visitors since I took an (unannounced) leave of absence, it seems fit to re-introduce myself:
Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Kate [...]
redefining Christmas — an ideal Thanksgiving
Since it is Thanksgiving and so much of America is focused on how they will shop tomorrow, here’s an idea for how to spend. I heard a little tiny snippet about an organization that wants to help us redefine the holidays. Sounded like a good idea, but this really brought it home:
“Consider that the amount [...]
thanks and motivation, but not a confession
As Dale pointed out in my last trip to the closed booth, I don’t have the zippiest confessions known to grace a blog. Nope. Hardly. I miss Whirling Dervish’s fascinating tales and stories and escapades. As I am sure you do, too.
This week I am trying to stay employed — the economy is tough on [...]
herding — the first time.
We were lucky it didn’t rain Saturday afternoon. But I don’t think anything would have detered Sport. He was all eyes and ears (and, to the sheep, bright white teeth).
Wish I had gotten better photos. These are the best of a half dozen that, given all the motion, had Mark blurred, or Sport, or both. [...]
Sport and his girlfriend, Coulaine
Sport got to see his best buddy today, a bright and lively Belgian Terveran who is only a few weeks younger than he is. They played hard, chasing and sliming each other (that’s why his fur is funny looking around his neck), chased a ball, wrestled (using their legs like boxers) and just had a [...]
350.org
I just read about an environmental organization called 350.org.
The gist of the group’s point is that we desperately need to get global warming reduced, and to reduce carbon emissions to a certain number: 350 ppm.
Why do I like this idea? Because it is a tangible number. It can be articulated and pointed to. It is [...]
listening to Maya Angelou talk about gratitude
This morning, on my way into work – driving because I have an after-work appointment, I got to listen to a portion of Diane Rehm’s interview with Maya Angelou.
I came into it a little late, and had to get out of the car before it was over, but what I heard was tremendously interesting and [...]
what I’ve been reading, an excerpt
I’ve had a draft going for ages about what is sitting on my bed stand table. Actually, I don’t have a table. I heap things on the floor next to my bed and on my desk nearby and on a folding table that sits next to my desk, and on a dresser. And downstairs in [...]
