The blog will be quiet for the next week as I am getting some much-needed sunshine.
On the way…
Monthly Archives: March 2011
The timing
I can track it by little squares.
After the broken umbrella,
before the return to the roof,
and the ‘truth of poetry’.
It was good for a little while.
For a while it was real.
Getting there…
Gab took this photo of me taking a photo on Memorial Day Weekend last year and I cannot overemphasize how excited I am that we’re getting back to this time of year. Camera, notebook, bathing suit, sunshine, country landscapes, friends… what more do you need?
Good thing to keep in mind
“Not to bring up something upsetting, but when you leave here today, you may go through a period of unemployment. My suggestion is this: Enjoy the unemployment. Have a second cup of coffee. Go to the park. Read Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman loved being unemployed. I don’t believe he ever did a day’s work in his life. As you may know, he was a poet. If a lot of time goes by and you continue to be unemployed, you may want to consider announcing to all appropriate parties that you have become a poet.”
-Excerpt from John Patrick Shanley’s 2009 commencement speech at College of Mount Saint Vincent (according to IMDB)
A simultaneous celebration and lamentation
She said she wanted California, and out through April she goes.
Left alone for a while, hidden by concrete braces of that East side.
But now it has unfolded.
And we will miss her.
Daphne and the backyard
In a very necessary and awesome turn of events, two of my favorite people visited NYC last week. One of them was the incomparable, life-affirming, wonderful Daphne, seen below, smiling, as usual.
I will always be grateful for the companionship, support and great times with good friends, much of which I’ve had this week. And for sparkling lights in backyards.
