What could be sweeter?
Than a video of a baby elephant being rescued
From a well in Africa.
By a group of human beings
With rope + a Range Rover.
While Mom elephant looks on
From afar.
“Come on, Sweetheart.”
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Loving
Isn’t This Pretty?
Sunshine through the front door sidelight…
makes a pretty pattern on the stairway wall.
But in the nearby living room…
the light becomes magical.
It dances on the wall behind the chair…
and adds color + shadows to a forgotten corner.
Today’s lesson?
Follow the light & see where it will take you.
By Collaborating With Sylvia Plath I Create A Poem Of Dubious Value
verily KITTYCAT’s verily KITTYCAT
I purr my tv and all the radio meows computer;
I snooze my masking tapes and all is befriended again.
(I climb I destroy you up inside my blinds.)
The electrical cords go alerting out in happily and sadly,
And intently kitchen counter creates in:
I engage my brown and all the white jumps furry.
I licked that you scratched me into stripes
And yawn me lovingly, yawned again me quite haughty.
(I climb I destroy you up inside my blinds.)
Bowl sleeps from the water, kibble’s pillows doubt:
Demand throne and window sill’s perch:
I engage my brown and all the white jumps furry.
I determine you’d evaluate the way you chew,
But I bat truly and I devour your trees.
(I climb I destroy you up inside my blinds.)
I should have pretended a chipmunk instead;
At least when birdies sway they ignore back again.
I engage my brown and all the white jumps furry.
(I climb I destroy you up inside my blinds.)
– Ally Bean & Sylvia Plath
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Notes To Myself, Part II
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I’ve been in a good place lately.
Seeing reality more clearly. Feeling more deeply.
Understanding and trusting the process.
So it is no surprise that I came upon this poster by Emily P. Freeman.
{“When the student is ready, the teacher will come.”}
It is her how-to guide to making art that matters. Art with a soul.
I like it as an artist’s manifesto– and as a guide for living an authentic life.
It expresses what I have come to believe.
That mediocrity and love cannot inhabit the same place.
The good place– where everything is just as it should be.
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THE SPECTACLED BEAN 