Part I:
It’s Tuesday evening. I’m not inspired. When I feel this way, I look to other writers and artists to pull me up. We’re all in this together. No need to compete. There is room for everyone. I’m a strong believer in abundance. I feel a spiritual obligation to pay it forward.
I’m thinking about last [...]
Archive for July, 2007
PRACTICE: Las Dos Chicas
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Doodling, Family, Practice, Random, Work, tagged image of chicken, image of girl, the practice of doodling on July 29, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Las Dos Chicas, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy.
All rights reserved.
Everyday Art - First Strawberry
Posted in Everyday Art, Food, Gratitude, Nature, Photography, Practice, Seasons, Wake Up, Work, Writing, tagged changing seasons, strawberries, summer in Minnesota on July 28, 2007 | 11 Comments »
First Strawberry, out on the deck, July 28th, 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Liz and I like to plant our perennials in pots on the deck, then transplant them later into the gardens. It gives us the advantage of enjoying a summer full of thriving foliage, bursting blooms, and wispy [...]
WRITING TOPIC - ABANDONED
Posted in Photography, Place, Practice, Recall, Silence, Wake Up, Work, Writing, Writing Topics, tagged abandoned buildings, abandoned space, abandonment on July 27, 2007 | 17 Comments »
For writers and artists, blogs can be a curse and a blessing. A curse when you spend hours of your time clicking your way through one blog then another, all the while not getting to the essay or the canvas or the slow walking, sitting, or writing practice. A blessing when you find like-minded souls and inspiration in the works they publish.
These [...]
PRACTICE - The Art Studio
Posted in 25 Things, Art, Bones, Dreams, Everyday Art, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Secrets, Spirituality, Topic Writing, Work, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged art objects, art studio, Everyday Art, Remington's Studio, the power of objects on July 26, 2007 | 10 Comments »
When I look at the photograph of Remington’s studio, I don’t see clutter. I see inspiration. I imagine that every object held meaning for him and inspired him to paint. And write. He was a prolific writer and artist.
Objects have power. Energy. Drive. Objects evoke memories. Memories connect to the heart. The heart stirs passion.
When I [...]
Fluid Moments Show
Posted in Art, Photography, Practice, Spirituality, Wake Up, Work, Writing on July 25, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Rein Nomm is an artist who works with water-soluble dyes and raw egg to create a visual feast of color. I saw a poster on his Flickr site for an upcoming show in Plymouth, Michigan. You can check out his Flickr profile at nomm de photo.
His photographs are best viewed in their original size. And be [...]
PRACTICE: Breakfast At Beto’s
Posted in Art, Doodling, Food, Practice, Random, Work, tagged image of bacon and eggs, image of waiter, the practice of doodling on July 24, 2007 | 19 Comments »
Breakfast at Beto’s, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2007
by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Everyone Has A Story
Posted in Gratitude, Growing Older, Life, Personal, Relationships, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged red Ravine Guests, college, classmates, Annelise, class reunions, alumni magazines on July 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
By Annelise
It was a good day for this writer. I spent time this afternoon talking to a college classmate. I’m the secretary of the class, and write the classnotes in the alumni magazine. I didn’t know this woman when we were in school together, but she welcomed my call.
“What have you been up to since [...]
Mercedes Trees
Posted in Art, Books, Culture, Everyday Art, Money, Photography, Practice, Vehicles, Wake Up, Work, Writing on July 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Mercedes Trees, near Lake Calhoun, South Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 20, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
A few days ago, we did a post on Everyday Art. A lot’s happened since then. I added the tag to my Flickr account and ybonesy set up a Flickr account with her drawings and photographs. She [...]
Where To Find Our Guests
Posted in 25 Things, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Writers, Writing, tagged red Ravine Guests, Writers, Writing on July 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
What have we done with them? Stuck them in closets? The backyard? Where, oh, where are red Ravine guest writers and artists?
Well, we keep a sidebar widget — Guest Writers & Featured Artists — that has guests from the past three months. Guests whose posts are older than three months are rotated off the widget. [...]
Everyday Art
Posted in Everyday Art, Photography, Random, Wake Up, Writing, tagged found objects on July 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Ever notice how artists and designers surround themselves with beautiful things? Not necessarily fine arts, but beautiful everyday things. Found objects or practical objects with a flair. Out-of-the-ordinary salt and pepper shakers, plain-yet-colorful plates, vintage scarves, oddly shaped rocks, pieces of gnarly wood. Do you save great-looking postcards just because they’re great looking? Or buy cheap-but-handsome trinkets and souvenirs? [...]
From A Poetry Virgin
Posted in Culture, Nature, On the Road, Poetry, Practice, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Ghost Ranch, Joan Logghe, Natalie Goldberg, pantoum, Poetry, poets, red Ravine Guests, Robert Bly, She Loved Rosebushes and Fruit Trees, Shira, The Discovery of Poetry, the practice of writing on July 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
By Shira
The Discovery of Poetry
dedicated to Joan Logghe (but only my own responsibility)
You who are not imagination impaired
Imagine a life without poetry
A tea party set with sweet dainty biscuits, delicate cups of tea and no guests
A single bed in a grey-walled boarding house
Imagine a world without music or song
Monotone monologues, precise words with logical meanings
Meanings [...]
A Conversation Between Friends
Posted in Bones, Family, Fotoblog, Gratitude, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Taos, Travel, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged community, conversation, friendships, New Mexico, Writers, Writing on July 18, 2007 | 13 Comments »
-Sunflowers, July 2007, growers market, Albuquerque, NM, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
ybonesy: What is it about being able to hang out in person with someone who you normally do so much with — write, start a blog, plan and produce — via telephone and email?
QuoinMonkey: Oh, it was such a relief to [...]
Word Of The Day: Turklet
Posted in Animals & Critters, Word Of The Day, tagged baby turkeys, pet turkeys, poults, rafter of turkeys, turklet on July 17, 2007 | 17 Comments »
Em Holding Baby Turkey, photo by ybonesy on July 17, 2007, photos © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Jim and the girls almost had me fooled when they told me that baby turkeys are called “turklets.” So I googled the word “turklet” and found this entry in Urban Dictionary:
turklet isn’t defined yet, but these are [...]
Because Our Love Transcends Hallmark Hollowware
Posted in Culture, Family, Gratitude, Life, Love, Personal, Relationships, tagged 16th anniversary, forgetting your anniversary, Hollowware, traditional anniversary gifts on July 15, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Something about the time of year we got married. Thick of the summer. Vacations and camps and just plain heat stroke, but Jim and I recently forgot, again, our wedding anniversary.
This is a streak now. Multiple years of forgetting. No flowers. No gift. Not even a card.
It started with our fifth, which we “celebrated” by watching a water softener demonstration. [...]
Leap Of Faith
Posted in Books, Family, Gratitude, Love, Practice, Things That Fly, Vision, tagged Ghost Ranch, girlhood, high-ropes course, motherhood, The Leap of Faith on July 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Dee called last night. She stayed one extra week in Ghost Ranch with friends of ours we met there a year ago. While I was in Ghost Ranch last week, Dee did the high ropes course. The course finale is to climb a 50-foot telephone pole, stand on it and make what is called “the leap [...]
My Brain On Art
Posted in Art, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Life, Money, Personal, Spirituality, Structure, Topic Writing, Vision, Work, Writers, blogroll, tagged balancing work and art, becoming an artist, not being tossed away, the artist's life, the writer's life on July 12, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Today is the 12th of July, one of those days smack in the middle of summer where all I can think about is how much I’d rather be doing anything other than working in an office for a living. I’m supposed to be writing about an object from Frederic Remington’s studio, but the place is [...]
Pedernal And Feather
Posted in Art, Family, Life, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Place, Spirituality, Travel, Vision, tagged children's art, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, The Pedernal on July 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Em just finished this painting of a white and purple feather with The Pedernal in the background. I hadn’t showed her the post I’d done earlier with my photo of that sacred mountain, but on the drive back to Albuquerque we did take “the back way” around The Pedernal. She asked me to stop at Abiquiu Lake [...]
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