So surprised are we at every change in the “world we know,” we fall for it every time:
Archive for the ‘Legends and Mythology’ Category
Loony
Posted in Cartoons, Emotions/Inner World, Idiosyncracies, Legends and Mythology on June 22, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Golem
Posted in Adam and Eve, Bible Story, Golem, Legends and Mythology, Sculpture on April 8, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Speak, so that I may see you. ― Socrates Wet hands on red clay, folding, molding it into the Creator’s image. Cheekbones smoothed by thumbs, eye sockets scooped out by moistened fingers, orbs tenderly placed within
His Danaë
Posted in Aging, Art, Legends and Mythology, Painting, Women on July 7, 2023 | 1 Comment »
For Michael Newberry, Freedom to go Anywhere, Figure | Ground Gallery, June 1, 2023, Seattle, WA USA No need for an Oracle to predict the parent dethroned. A collective betrayal: to be outlived, outloved, no matter what we blame on the one who birthed the next generation, even if she bedded a god.
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 […]
String of broken promises / Cadena de promesas rotas
Posted in Guanajuato, Legends and Mythology, Love, Music on March 10, 2020 | 4 Comments »
[Many thanks/muchas gracias to my favorite princess, Kivieta Gutiérrez Suardíaz, for working with me to translate this poem into Spanish. Beware the enchantment legends -of a princess who lives in the bluffs awaiting the suitor who can withstand all temptation other than she waiting still no lover able to resist