Posted in Bones, Culture, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Jugular, Life, Life In Letters, Love, Personal, Politics, Practice, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Work, Writing, tagged Cindy Sheehan, Family, Iraq, letters, peace, Peace Walk, Politics, red Ravine Guests, spirit, Thich Nhat Hanh, war on May 31, 2007 | 60 Comments »
From Beth Howard
May 30, 2007
Dear Cindy,
Yesterday, I read in your on-line diary that you are leaving Crawford, Texas and going home to California. You wrote, “This is my resignation letter as the ‘face’ of the American anti-war movement.” There is so much energy in politics and government that is not peaceful. Much of our [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Bones, Practice, Structure, Topic Writing, Writing, Writing Topics, tagged 100 writing topics, Practice, Structure, Writers, Writing on May 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »
why I like midnight
my favorite times to write
blue moons
what it is about being the oldest child
fresh air
what I learned from my favorite teachers
the Tao of Underdog
why I don’t write pulp fiction
everything I know about State Fairs
the last concert I attended
the first concert I attended
the day I learned to drive
who taught me to drive and why
classes [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Culture, Family, Family Recipes, Food, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Relationships, Travel, Writing, tagged Amelia's kitchen, food and culture, GRITS, passing down family recipes, Southern breakfasts on May 30, 2007 | 8 Comments »
-Breakfast at Amelia’s, May 30th, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
What could be better than fresh grits, hot from the stove (smothered in butter and cheese), scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, and French Roast? For lunch we had pimento cheese sandwiches, peanut butter pie, and sweet iced tea.
For the family gathering tonight, my [...]
Posted in Art, Bones, Books, Culture, Doodling, Family, Gratitude, Haiku, Life, Love, Personal, Politics, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Spirituality, Structure, Work, Writing, blogroll on May 29, 2007 | 28 Comments »
The girls are off for the summer. This morning I head out the door for work. “Whaaat?,” they cry, “Whereyagoin??” I tell them I have to go to work. “Wer-erk?, but it’s summer!!”
This happens every time they don’t have school. Presidents Day, Fall Break, snow days, teachers’ in-service. In their minds, all the world revolves around school.
I wish it [...]
Posted in Family, Maps, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Random, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, Wake Up, Writing, tagged aerial shots of Wyoming, Minnesota, Rattlesnake Mountain, view from the sky on May 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
-Leaving the Land of 10,000 Lakes, photo © 2007 by Liz, all rights reserved
Inspired by ybonesy’s Arriving Albuquerque From Seat 21A and Leaving Portland From Seat 21A, I wanted to post Liz’s aerial shots from her trip last week from Minnesota to Wyoming. I wrote about the Minnesota puddles above in Shadow Of A Dragonfly. The two shots below are Wyoming from [...]
Posted in Culture, Gratitude, Holidays, Photography, Structure, Vision, Work, Writers, Writing on May 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Some consider Memorial Day the first weekend of summer. At red Ravine, we’re celebrating spring and summer by sliding in a new masthead.
Thanks to Wallinga Design, the logotype and tagline pop against a palette of bright lemon yellow. The photograph in the masthead is a detail of the larger image below, Yellow Rose. It’s a telephoto [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Holidays, Life, Love, Memoir, Personal, Place, Practice, Quotes, Relationships, Writers, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged Bones, history, James Baldwin, Memoir, pilgrimage, Practice, Travel, Writers, Writing, writing practice on May 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It’s the day before I leave on a two week trip to Georgia and Pennsylvania to do some research for my book. A memoir. I talked to my mother this morning, a short check in before I fly out tomorrow. I told her I am keeping my heart and mind open and looking forward to [...]
Posted in Family, Life, Nature, Personal, Place, Politics, Practice, Random, Skies, Travel, Weather, Work, Writing on May 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Every evening the clouds gather. I read in the newspaper today the question on people’s minds is, Is this the monsoons? No, the meterologists say, the monsoons don’t come until July. The weather is cooler, cooler than average. This is the fourth wettest May in Albuquerque since 1913, I read yesterday.
I’m living in the new [...]
Posted in Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Family, Gratitude, Growing Older, Haiku, Holidays, Life, Love, Money, Music, Personal, Place, Practice, Relationships, blogroll on May 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I am sitting on a burgundy leather couch in the Satellite coffee shop. I used to come here and write with a small group of people, we did Bones-style writing, and I remember how much the music bothered me. Today, now, it’s a bluesy piece with an organ played low and a woman’s smoky voice. Lounge [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Death, Family, Life, Love, Maps, Nature, Personal, Photography, Place, Seasons, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, Wake Up, tagged dragonfly, gardens, hunting, shadow of a dragonfly on May 27, 2007 | 10 Comments »
-Shadows, May 26, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
She planted the deck flowers: tickseed, Meadow Cranesbill geraniums, Oranges and Lemons, red poppies, Fragoo Pink strawberries, and leaf lettuce in the garden. In between: cloudy gray rain, fall gusts, striated slats of sun, stunned clouds propelled by 25mph winds. It doesn’t feel like [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Bones, Culture, Doodling, Family, Gratitude, Politics, Practice, Random, Silence, Structure, Wake Up, Work, Writing, Writing Topics on May 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
This week sit outside one morning. Take your notebook and pen and your coffee or tea or glass of water. Drink the whole thing. Take your time. Try not to think as you sit. Use the time to clear your mind of all the thoughts that invade. Use the time to just be. Notice how the drink tastes. Notice what’s in [...]
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