Some summer mornings I resist the invitation to greet the day on the page, murmur excuses within the crowded clamor – too cold, too gray, too late – then the seagull flies overhead, mouth dangling dark matter extracted from a neighbor’s gutter, to the nest I cannot see but must be close.
Archive for the ‘Renewal/rebirth’ Category
Threshold
Posted in Nest, Renewal/rebirth, Transformation, Writing on July 4, 2022 | 4 Comments »
At least two lives
Posted in Architecture, Cerros, Guanajuato, México, Renewal/rebirth on June 22, 2022 | 1 Comment »
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same. – Rem Koolhaas Some never knew of the secret stair, smooth, cool caracol of white cantera, winding out of sight complicit in the house built in another era […]
Déjalo ir / Letting go
Posted in Acceptance, Dance, Renewal/rebirth, Surrender, Transformation on May 25, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Déjalo ir – Para Leona, con sus colores vibrantes en su interior. Gracias por recordármelo. ¿Cuántas veces me ha sido invitado?
Windswept
Posted in Deities, Guanajuato, Legends and Mythology, Renewal/rebirth, Wind on May 2, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The winds howled and moaned dirt and leaves and bug carcasses and dust bunnies eddied and swirled bounced down the clay tile steps one by one a soft whoosh followed by a light scraping sound as crisp dry bougainvillea leaves skittered in attempt to break free of the twirling mass until finally the debris-heavy funnel […]
Grave Goods
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Renewal/rebirth on April 23, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The first time you died I wanted to fill your grave with artifacts from our union too precious to live above ground.