Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Mandalas, Photography, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged changing seasons, circles, coloring as practice, Coloring Mandalas, Mandalas, Marija Gimbutas, Susanne F. Fincher, The Great Round, Wheel of Life on April 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
April draws to a close in a few hours. Though it snowed last Saturday, the light of April’s last day is clear and blue. The front yard is bursting with new life: erratic shoots of thick, green grass, day lilies skyrocketing out of tender wet ground, red-stemmed dogwood buds, one purple bloom in the [...]
Posted in 13 Moons, Body, Bones, Death, Life, Nature, Personal, Seasons, Skies, Writing Practices, tagged April full moon, changing seasons, Frog Moon, Pink Moon, spring in Minnesota, the practice of writing, writing about the moon on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was torn. Pink Moon, Frog Moon, Moon of the Greening Grass. I liked Flower Moon and Broken Snowshoe Moon. I imagined fumbling out of a leather strap on an antique snowshoe, ice jamming the buckle, stepping out just long enough to sink knee-deep into what’s left of Winter. But it is the Frog Moon [...]
Posted in Art of Rebellion, Culture, Death, Family, Gratitude, Memoir, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Place, Poetry, Relationships, Skies, tagged Bear, Bearhug, Cielito Lindo, death of an uncle, honoring death, Mary Oliver, Michael Ondaatje, The Cinnamon Peeler, Why I Wake Early on April 28, 2008 | 13 Comments »
In Bloom, wisteria blooming in the mid-April spring before
the hard freeze, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
My Uncle Bear died yesterday. I was at my daughter’s horse show when I got the call from Mom. Dad was crying too much to tell me himself.
I wonder what it’s like to lose a younger sibling. [...]
Posted in Doodling, Family, Life, Relationships, Writing Topics, tagged birth order, birth order traits, firstborn child, middle child, The Birth Order Connection, the power of birth order, youngest child on April 25, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Birth order. Does it matter?
That was the headline, more or less, of a CNN article that came out last fall, which said that birth order may, in fact, matter a lot. That same month TIME ran its own take on recent hard evidence demonstrating “The Power of Birth Order.”
For example, firstborns are more likely to go [...]
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Doodling, Family, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons, Writing, tagged children's poetry, images of dogs, images of pugs, limericks, poems about dogs on April 23, 2008 | 44 Comments »
Sony Pepperoni, pen and ink on graph paper, doodle © 2008
by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Em, my youngest daughter, has been reading and writing poetry all this month with her third-grade class. She wrote two limericks and one haiku, and she carried in her Poetry Book a poem called “My hobby” by Shel Silverstein. She read all [...]
Posted in Art of Rebellion, Culture, Family, Personal, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged confessional, confessions, motherhood, the Catholic church's view on birth control, writing about sins on April 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
All day long I put off writing about sin. I wonder, would I think more about sin if I were sinning? I’m not kidding. I believe that if I were plotting to murder, sin and sin’s consequences would be on my mind.
I wonder if murderers really do confess to priests. And if they do, if [...]
Posted in Culture, Jugular, Life, Personal, Practice, Relationships, Spirituality, Structure, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, 7 Holy Virtues, writing about the 7 Deadly Sins on April 21, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Of the 7 Deadly Sins, I find Lust and Wrath to be the most harmful to humanity. That may say more about me, than it does humanity. Lust to excess leads to unseemly, crass actions. I am stunned by news programs where a bait is placed on the Internet and some guy shows up at [...]
Posted in Art, Doodling, Love, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Secrets, tagged fashion, Italian shoes, love of shoes, ode poems, ode to shoes, odes, Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda odes, pink shoe drawings, pink shoes, shoe art, shoe poems, style on April 19, 2008 | 31 Comments »
Pink Shoe, pen and ink and marker paint on graph paper,
doodle © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
It’s not the first pink shoe I’ve loved.
The first would be a pair I bought for $3 at a garage sale. Nineteen-forties, pointy toe, with a bow. Still in the original shoe box.
“Love” is too strong of a word. That’s [...]
Posted in Culture, Poetry, Relationships, tagged American Life in Poetry, celebrate poetry, National Poem In Your Pocket Day, National Poetry Month, Steve Orlen, Ted Kooser, The Elephant's Child, Three Teenage Girls: 1956 on April 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
American Life in Poetry: Column 160
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
I’ve mentioned how important close observation is in composing a vivid poem. In this scene by Arizona poet, Steve Orlen, the details not only help us to see the girls clearly, but the last detail is loaded with suggestion. The poem closes with the [...]
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Haiku, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Spirituality, Taos, tagged 1 Year Anniversary of Virginia Tech, anniversaries, black & white photography, Georgia O'Keeffe, homage, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Morada Walk, New Mexico, Penitentes, Taos Mountain, the practice of haiku, white cross on April 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Morada Walk, Taos Mountain in the background, white
cross Georgia O’Keeffe painted, Taos, New Mexico,
January 2003, Tri-X black & white film print, photo ©
2003-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
gusty April winds
ruffle brambled shoots of green
Spring bounds from behind
anniversaries
separate fiction from fact
squeeze light from the dark
photosynthesis
through veins of a single leaf
gives life to the world
-posted on red Ravine, [...]
Posted in 25 Things, Art of Rebellion, Bones, Culture, Film / TV / Video, Life, Mandalas, Photography, Practice, Relationships, Secrets, Spirituality, Structure, Writing Topics, tagged 7 Deadly Sins, 7 Holy Virtues, 7 New Deadly Sins, Gandhi, Gandhi's Seven Deadly Sins, Hieronymus Bosch, Se7en, the practice of writing, The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, Vatican, writing about the 7 Deadly Sins on April 15, 2008 | 26 Comments »
7, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Can you list the 7 Deadly Sins? I usually get to number 6 and fade out. I can never remember all 7. The 7 Deadly Sins began with Evagrius Ponticus as a list of 8 capital vices. A condensed version of the list [...]
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