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Bearing Witness
Posted in Body, Bones, Death, Dreams, Family, Growing Older, Home, Jugular, Life, Life In Letters, Love, Memoir, Personal, Photography, Place, Relationships, Secrets, tagged bearing witness, Bob Chrisman, brothers & sisters, family history, family legacies, family memories, fathers, fathers and sons, grandmothers, making choices, marriage, memoir writing, mothers & sons, promises, red Ravine Guests, reflecting on the past, sibling rivalry, siblings, the passage of time, the things I carry, things I learn from my family, writing about grandmothers on September 28, 2009 | 37 Comments »
By Bob Chrisman I possess no physical evidence to offer in defense of my father. Family stories and my own fragmented memories comprise what little I know of him. Fifty-seven years have blurred much of what I remembered, but I will bear witness for him. At a trial, the court clerk would instruct me to [...]
Pendants and Charms and Milagros, Oh My!
Posted in 25 Things, Art, Bones, Doodling, Dreams, Everyday Art, Gratitude, Personal, Photography, Practice, Secrets, Structure, Vision, Work, tagged charm necklaces, creative zone, domed resin pendants, fun, Joel Deluxe photo, making art, making jewelry, milagros, not being tossed away, Scrabble tile pendants, the creative process, things I learned while showing my art on September 24, 2009 | 27 Comments »
ybonesy’s bones, ybonesy’s pendants displayed in black beans at the We Art the People Folk Festival, September 2009, photo © 2009 by Joel Deluxe. All rights reserved. I’m having fun. Playing with the Scrabble and other game tile pendants I’ve been making, turning them into bigger and better things. I’m nuts for milagros [...]
Women Who Scribble With Wolves
Posted in 25 Things, Art of Rebellion, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Life, Photography, Place, Reading, Relationships, Vision, Wake Up, Work, Writers, tagged Anuvue Studio, Asian Ramblings, blogging, blogging awards, Life in the Bogs, not following rules, recognition, Seeded Earth, Sharon Lippincott, The Heart and Craft of Life Writing, The Superior Scribbler, the work of blogging, Thinking About..., Wasted Days and Wasted Nights on September 22, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Can I be frank? I’m not fond of rules. I loved the badges they handed out in Girl Scouts for doing things like embroidering (they looked so cool on your sash) but I hated embroidering. In places like Oregon, I admire how the traffic flows so well with those red-light-green-light on-ramps, but I reject the notion that [...]
lifeline — rio grande haiku
Posted in Art, Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, Maps, Nature, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Silence, Structure, Taos, Wake Up, tagged American Southwest, fault lines, film photography, geography, geology, lens flare, New Mexico, northern New Mexico, photography as art, rifts, Rio Grande, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, rivers, rivers as rebels, the practice of haiku, the practice of photography on September 19, 2009 | 5 Comments »
lifeline – the rio grande , C-41 print film, close up of the Rio Grande River from the Gorge Bridge, outside Taos, New Mexico, January 2003, photo © 2003-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. rivers pour like words– geological fault line the length of my heart gully, gulch, or wash? the mighty Rio Grande started [...]
PRACTICE: Arroyo – 15min
Posted in Culture, Life, Nature, Place, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged arroyo, Corrales NM, landmarks, names of subdivisions, New Mexico, origination of place names, Rio Grande Valley, Spanish place names, Spanish pronunciation, Spanish words for things, the practice of writing, the suburbs on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The rr‘s are rolled, a-rrrr-oyo. One of those words that we chronically mispronounce ’round here, like burro. Or burrito. Or the town where I live, which when I say it the way the Spaniards intended it to be said, has depth, like you’re digging down into the roots of the town. Co-rrrrrales. And my name. [...]
PRACTICE — Arroyo – 15min
Posted in Bodies Of Water, Body, Bones, Holding My Breath, Life, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Place, Practice, Seasons, Topic Writing, Travel, Wake Up, Weather, Writing Practices, tagged American Southwest, Arches National Park, arroyo, arroyo seco, camping, dangers of camping, flash floods, Four Corners, Glen Canyon, hot springs, Jemez Springs, Lake Powell, love of photography, New Mexico, Spence Hot Springs, the practice of photography, the practice of writing, traveling, traveling with strangers, Utah on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m at Arches National Park near the town of Moab, Utah. I don’t know if I’m looking at an arroyo or a wash. Is it both? We set up camp in a low-lying area surrounded by high boulders and pointy crops of red rock. The elevation reaches over 5500 feet. I’m camping in the desert [...]
turn of the key haiku
Posted in Everyday Art, Haiku, Holding My Breath, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Seasons, Secrets, Structure, Taos, Travel, Wake Up, tagged abandoned, C-41 color film, cars, Chrysler, Dodge, film photography, found objects, keys, locks, New Mexico, northern New Mexico, objects, rust, rusty objects, senryu, the power of objects, the practice of haiku, turning of the seasons, turning points, turning the key, vintage cars, waiting on September 17, 2009 | 15 Comments »
the key, C-41 print film, up on the mesa top, outside Taos, New Mexico, January 2003, photo © 2003-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. frozen rusty lock not knowing she has the key– waits for the next turn -posted on red Ravine, Thursday, September 17th, 2009 -related to [...]
Out of The Blue “ENVY Contest” Winner To Be Announced Soon
Posted in Art, Dreams, Film / TV / Video, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Photography, Poetry, Structure, Vision, Word Of The Day, Writers, tagged artistic exploration of envy, Envy, Envy as muse, ENVY Contest, film about envy, Out of The Blue Films Inc on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Just a quick note to let our readers know that the staff of Out of The Blue Films, Inc. is in the thick of reviewing submissions to the “ENVY Contest,” which closed on August 15. The lucky winner will receive a brand new Amazon Kindle, the reading wireless device that you hold in your hands like a book and that [...]
PRACTICE — Potatoes – 15min
Posted in Culture, Family, Food, Laughing, Nature, Personal, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged childhood foods, comfort food, food and culture, food memories, Minnesota Garlic Festival, Nightshade family, ode to the potato, potatoes, vegetables, writing about potatoes on September 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The most wholesome, delicious potatoes I’ve tasted in a long time came from the Minnesota Garlic Festival this summer. It was pouring down rain when Liz and I ducked under a canopy that led to a small booth of farmer’s produce. On the table were two paper dishes of homegrown potatoes. One held a buttery [...]
PRACTICE: Potatoes – 15min
Posted in Culture, Family, Food, Haiku, Laughing, Life, Love, Nature, Personal, Practice, Seasons, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged childhood foods, comfort food, food and culture, food memories, ode to the potato, potato haiku, potatoes, writing about potatoes, writing practice & food on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Potatoes are a heroic food. They emerge from the dirt, lumpy and misshapen. It is rare to find a perfectly round potato. They are the Salt of the Earth among vegetables. Not a diva or prince among them. If potatoes were people, they would be the peasants, toiling in the fields. I love the potato, filling and [...]
Peach Glazed Pig Cheeks On-A-Stick At The MN State Fair
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Culture, Family, Food, Fotoblog, Holidays, Laughing, Photography, Place, Seasons, tagged 67 foods on-a-stick at the Minnesota State Fair, comfort food, Fair food, Flowering Onion, food and culture, food on-a-stick, Great Minnesota Get-Together, great ways to spend Labor Day weekend, How many pounds in a bushel?, knives from buzz saw blades, Minnesota, Minnesota State Fair, Peach Glazed Pig Cheeks on-a-stick, personal best, Saint Agnes Baking Company, Standing Buffalo Knives, summer in Minnesota, Tom Thumb Donuts, Vintage Seed Bags, What are pig cheeks? on September 7, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Flowering Onion, MN State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. It’s Labor Day, final day of the Minnesota State Fair, when the last of 12 Butter Queens will take her place in the Butter Booth at the Dairy Building. The Fair signifies the unofficial end of [...]
Vietnamese Painter Pham Luc & The Gift Of Happiness
Posted in Art, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Holding My Breath, Life, Love, Money, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Travel, Vision, Wake Up, tagged artists, collecting art, Fam Luc, generosity, giving back, going with the flow, Impressionism, love of art, painting, Pham Luc, portraits, the artist's life, the book Painter Fam Luc, the gift of happiness, traveling in Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnamese painters, ybonesy in Vietnam on September 2, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Me, By Pham Luc, portrait of Roma, 26×36 inches, August 2009, image © 2009 by Pham Luc, photo © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved. In a small travel agency that sits just around the corner from the Hanoi Cathedral, I wait as the owner, Tony Pham, fills out paperwork for [...]
Tom Thumb Donuts — Reinventing The Wheel
Posted in Family, Food, Laughing, Life, Photography, Place, tagged 1940's inventions, American inventions, comfort food, deep-fried foods, Fair food, food and culture, greasing the wheel, Great Minnesota Get-Together, history of Tom Thumb Donuts, inventions, John Desmond, making donuts, making doughnuts, mini-donuts, Minnesota State Fair, reinventing the wheel, six degrees of separation, Ted Boecher, Tom Arneberg, Tom Thumb Donut machine, Tom Thumb Donut stand, Tom Thumb Donuts, Who invented the mini-donut making machine?, writing about inventions on September 1, 2009 | 25 Comments »
Tom Thumb Donut Machine, MN State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 2008, all photos © 2008-2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. No one leaves the Minnesota State Fair without a bag of Tom Thumb Donuts. I’ve gone a whole day, been dead on my feet, and made the trek back to the Tom [...]
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