– head over heels – Which is water? Which is sky? You may also like: Mirror St. Patrick would be proud Turning somersaults Continue reading
Tag Archives: wisdom
Belay
Slowly, it takes hold- fingers outstretched, finding its place, its embrace of leaf and limb. You may also like: Unfold Nurse Log Bryophyte Cyclical Continue reading
Unfold
Tendril by Tendril arise to your new life. Shake out your wrinkled leaves. Embrace and welcome sunshine! You may also like: Fiddlehead The Unknown is the Best Part Fox in throat, hand in sleeve Dogwood Mornings Continue reading
Instructions
Pick a flower before the end of the day. Admire its brightness as it turns sunshine into sugar. Watch a bee land on its petals, sniffing out sweetness before you untether it. Continue reading
Acrobatics
O’Snail, Dextrous, Dilly-dallying, Descending Dependably making your way. Continue reading
The Unknown is the Best Part
I enter the woods from a hidden path, which winds around a corner and out of sight. The trail wants to disappear as soon as possible, away from the train tracks and the cars and the busy roads, into the cool, verdant shelter of the trees. I do too. I slip into the trees, unnoticed … Continue reading
celebrating our spaces
While contemplating some wonderfully visual food and lifestyle blogs I have been looking at frequently for artistic inspiration and my own visual pleasure, I began thinking about the nature of space. How important spaces are to our identities as people. How we express ourselves through decoration. What we display in our spaces as monuments of … Continue reading
Sacred Places of San Francisco: treasure island
I recently received an amazing book for a goodbye gift, a tomb I’d been drooling over at San Francisco bookstores for months. It is called Infinite City, a feat of a project done by Rebecca Solnit. Infinite City turns traditional cartography on its head, presenting 22 unique maps pairing landmarks of San Francisco in unusual … Continue reading
WALC gently
For the last two months or so, I have been a regular volunteer in two classrooms at Downtown High School in Potrero Hill here in SF. I originally got connected through 826 Valencia, who I have talked about in my previous posts, but after the writing project through 826 was done, I stayed on, helping … Continue reading
why i love trees
Arbor Day is a world-wide holiday originating in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska. As its name suggests, Arbor Day commemorates trees. On the first Arbor Day (April 10, 1872), it is estimated that 1 million trees were planted! The beautiful living beings that line our streets, shade our lawns, color our cities, and … Continue reading
in the midst 