Duck Eggs, processed version of Nesting – 17/52, Week 17 Jump-Off, BlackBerry 52, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. A mallard has taken up residence outside the door of a busy commercial building I visit each day. She sits on the eggs at night. By day, the human [...]
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Nesting & Resting
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Body, Bones, Family, Holding My Breath, Home, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Things That Fly, Wake Up, tagged adaptability, BlackBerry 52, BlackBerry 52 Jump-Offs, change of seasons, down, duck eggs, ducklings, eggs, feathers, hope, Hope is the thing with feathers, humans & nature, leaves, Mallard ducks, nesting, nests, spring in Minnesota, texture, turning of the seasons on April 29, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Carlsbad Caverns — Jan 23 1947
Posted in Art, Books, Culture, Dreams, Growing Older, Life, Life In Letters, Memoir, Nature, On the Road, Photography, Place, Postcards From The Edge, Relationships, Seasons, Travel, Vision, tagged Amelia Earhart, bat caves, bat habitats, bats, Brazilian bats, C.T. Art-Colortone, Carlsbad, Carlsbad Caverns, Carlsbad Caverns National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, caves, Colortones, guano mining, Jim White, Jim White's Own Story, linen postcards, Michelle McCaulley, National Park Week, national parks, New Mexico, New Mexico history, postcards as inspiration, preservation, the art of writing postcards & letters, the benefits of bats, The Big Room, underbelly, vintage postcards, Whites City on April 23, 2011 | 11 Comments »
On The Trail In The Big Room, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, mailed in 1947 from Whites City, New Mexico, vintage postcard found in Monticello, Minnesota, March 2011, Colortone © Curt Teich & Co., photo scan © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. “Jim White, the discoverer and explorer of Carlsbad Caverns has his [...]
How To Throw
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Jugular, Life, Nature, Place, Poetry, Practice, Silence, Vision, Wake Up, tagged Does poetry matter?, Erin Robertson, experimental poetry, freestyle poetry, Henry David Thoreau, language, mountains, poets, red Ravine Guests, response to Susan Howe's "Thorow", statement on poetry., Susan Howe, the nearness of poetry, the silence of nature, the value of poetry on April 21, 2011 | 12 Comments »
By Erin Robertson How to Throw (response to Susan Howe’s “Thorow”) Thorow the process of learning Thoreau, the philosophy, learning of the nearness of poetry transcendence, geobiology one of man, one of nature nature in us as nature men have words, whose voices inhabit poems literature of savigism men have titles, jentelmen the origin of [...]
Keeping On
Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Dreams, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Jugular, Life, Love, Nature, Poetry, Seasons, Topic Writing, Wake Up, tagged clear sight, Death as a new beginning, don't be tossed away, healing powers of poetry, honoring death, keeping on, letting go, Letting Go of What Cannot Be Held Back, life & death, National Poetry Month, one foot in front of the other, poems about death, red Ravine Guests, Sacred Circles, Sacred Destinations, Susy Crandall, the energy of Death, the power of poetry on April 18, 2011 | 27 Comments »
By Susy Crandall sometimes keeping going is the only thing to do. just put one foot in front of the other even when all you want to do is STOP and jet off, uncoiling this mortal coil, snapping the cord that holds you here on this terrestrial ball sometimes I have felt myself leaving when [...]
Pulling Out The Sun (By Day, By Night)
Posted in Art, Bones, Death, Holding My Breath, Life, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Skies, Structure, Wake Up, tagged alotus_poetry, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 52, building community through the Arts, collaboration, cryptic diptych, haiga, inspiration, Minnesota, Moose Lake, Poetry By Lotus, pulling out the Sun, solarizing, solarizing prints & film, the value of process, the value of the Arts, What is solarizing? on April 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Pulling Out The Sun (By Day) – 14/52, BlackBerry 52, Moose Lake, Minnesota, April 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: original RAW file from July 2010 shot with a Canon Powershot G6, solarized and text added in Calligraph421 BT font with Photoshop Elements. Three lines of poetry by Lotus from her [...]
The Yogi (Cover Page) — 14/52
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Culture, Death, Growing Older, Holding My Breath, Life, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Structure, Topic Writing, Wake Up, tagged a cellular swan song, alotus_poetry, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 52, BlackBerry 52 Jump-Offs, building community through the Arts, circle of life, collaboration, finding Samadhi, honoring death, life & death, National Poetry Month, Obsoletion Blues, poems about death, Poetry By Lotus, Samadhi, Strange Attractors, The Yogi, Wheel of Life, yoga on April 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The Yogi (Cover Page), 14/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 14, April 8th 2011, photo © 2011 by Kathy Nguyen (A~Lotus). All rights reserved. Medium: Digital Collage using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. Cover for a beautiful poem by Lotus — The Yogi. The poetry and collage combine to make the BlackBerry 52 Jump-Off for Week 14, and [...]
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