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 […]
Archive for the ‘Natural World’ Category
At least two lives
Posted in Architecture, Cerros, Guanajuato, México, Renewal/rebirth on June 22, 2022 | 1 Comment »
Gold Dust
Posted in Aging, Dance, Intimacy, Mining, Silver, Surrender on May 17, 2022 | 2 Comments »
Inured to the fine veins of your being, I am crisscrossed by brutish passageways
Beacon Hill Park
Posted in Birds, Leaving, Pacific Northwest on April 12, 2022 | 2 Comments »
Bleak as the splat of the just-fed bird’s dropping on my lime green dress of cashmere whitish liquid dripping its way down what had been a rarely achieved elegance. Omens are no rival for blindness. That royal raven chased me out of its court sent me running, frightened and foolish, sure it was happening, unsure I […]
Preparing for Spring
Posted in Flowers, Seasons, Women on March 23, 2022 | 2 Comments »
Daffodils bow their heads, shyly pour their golden silence, evade the prying lens, beckon human eyes of the very young, beetles and squirrels scurrying below, those willing to lie down on moist cold dirt to peer inside, past the attention-seeking stigma to the hushed ovary, protectively hidden, the seed-bearing life-giver we charge past, ignore until […]
Zero Visibility
Posted in Caves, COVID-19, Existential, Isolation/Belonging on February 28, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
That night of the thick fog, razor-sharp winds, the sky and ground the same dull, impenetrable gray, my fingers and toes, cheeks and ears unable to discern temperature, pain signals tapping an indecipherable morse code, dots of panic, dashes of resignation. I couldn’t see any way out.