Posted in Culture, Haiku, Money, On the Road, Photography, Place, Politics, Practice, Travel, Wake Up, tagged New Mexico culture, northern New Mexico, price of gas, the practice of haiku on May 1, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Pray for Gas, religious statues inside the stone pillar for the gas price sign at a gas station in northern NM, photos © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
stop the wind, please stop
war, drought, hunger, judgment
drop the price of gas
nuestra señora
santo niño atocha
break us free from oil
exxon, conoco
profit from the rest of us
prisoners of war
4-plus [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Creative Nonfiction, Essay, Memoir, On the Road, Relationships, Spirituality, Writers, Writing, tagged An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert and Anne Lamott, Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird, books about spirituality, Carolyn Flynn, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Operating Instructions, Ruth Stone, spiritual paths, Traveling Mercies, UCLA events on April 9, 2008 | 33 Comments »
By Carolyn Flynn
For red Ravine
SAGE Editor, author and redRavine.com contributor Carolyn Flynn recently attended “An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert and Anne Lamott” on the UCLA campus.
To loosen up before writing a new book, Elizabeth Gilbert invites one person to join her and live inside her head. She says she wrote Eat Pray Love as a [...]
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Posted in Haiku, Holding My Breath, Life, On the Road, Photography, Practice, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, tagged airplane shots, the practice of haiku on March 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Somewhere over Arizona, the flight home from California, photo (not taken with my cell phone camera) © 2008 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
how come the return
is shorter than departure?
finally, exhaling
-related to post: haiku (one-a-day)
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Posted in Family, Life, On the Road, Photography, Place, Seasons, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, tagged airplane shots, California, cell phone photography, family vacations, Hotel California, Santa Monica on March 29, 2008 | 14 Comments »
We buckled in Colby Jack.
(Monkey also came.
So did Wally the Platypus.)
We saw snow on the mountains.
(But where we were going,
there was no snow.)
It was down there somewhere.
Underneath all the smog.
Finally, we could see something.
Ah, yes, an airport parking lot.
We got our Ford Escape.
Look, the underside of a plane!
We drove our car to our [...]
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Posted in 25 Things, Great Places To Write, On the Road, Photography, Place, Things That Fly, Travel, tagged airplane shots, cell phone photography, plane rides on February 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I get up at 4:10 am, the latest possible time I can rise and get dressed, make a cup of coffee, brush my teeth, warm the frost off the car, and still make it to the airport 45 minutes before my 6 o’clock flight.
The plane is almost empty. I sit alone on row 12, over the wing. [...]
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Cranes in Cornfield, cell phone photo ©
2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Actually, I saw a crane yesterday
from seat 9F (window, over the wing)
of my US Airways flight into San Jose,
California.
I wondered if it was
the same crane
I saw last time I was in San Jose.
Last night I was at a restaurant
Pappizani or something Italian,
work colleagues.
Talk turned to [...]
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Posted in Art, Everyday Art, On the Road, Photography, Place, tagged Albuquerque International Sunport, environmental art, Nancy Judd, Recycle Runway, recycled art, trash fashion on December 8, 2007 | 18 Comments »
I love the Albuquerque International Sunport. I love that it’s small and easy to navigate. I love the ageless art deco wood-and-leather chairs, comfy to sit in while waiting to board a flight. Mostly I love what the airport folks dream up to entertain weary travelers passing in and out of the airport’s doors.
Case in point [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Books, Culture, Dreams, Fiction, Haiku, On the Road, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Reading, Structure, Vision, Writers, Writing, tagged Art of Rebellion, book reviews, Books, boundary busters, interviews, Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Does Haiku, Joyce Johnson, Kerouac Speaks, MacNeil/Lehrer, NPR, On the Road, On The Road Scroll Exhibition Tour, Some American Haikus, Women of the Beat Generation, writers who changed the face of writing on November 29, 2007 | 33 Comments »
On The Road, Summer 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
In September 2007, I finished reading On The Road. It was the day the book turned 50. I have this thing for Kerouac. I consider him the James Dean of writers. I guess I’m easily swayed by myth.
On The Road didn’t [...]
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Posted in Art, Doodling, Laughing, Life, On the Road, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, tagged conversations with myself while I'm flying, flying with strangers, plane rides on November 13, 2007 | 40 Comments »
Dear Person Sitting Next to Me on the Plane,
Do you plan to never make eye contact? I thought I was a cold traveler, but you take the cake.
BTW, that haircut is kind of silly. It’s so David Schwimmer on Friends.
Signed,
yb
Dear Person Sitting Next to Me on the Plane,
Why did you [...]
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Posted in Maps, On the Road, Photography, Place, Skies, Things That Fly, Vehicles, tagged airplane shots, airports, cell phone camera, palm trees, rental car centers on October 15, 2007 | 26 Comments »
I’ve been here before.
Said to live for hundreds of years.
Yet, you need agua to live, and where is theirs?
More beautiful in mythology than in person.
Although, the new Rental Car Center is like a museum.
I wonder if Dumbledore knows where I am (was).
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Posted in Culture, Food, Holding My Breath, Holidays, Laughing, Life, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Seasons, Structure, Things That Fly, tagged All Hallow's Eve, Family, friends, Grantsburg, Halloween, Holidays, Home, minerals, pumpkins, rocks, Siren, The Great Pumpkin Catapult, The Midwest, Wisconsin on October 14, 2007 | 24 Comments »
The Great Pumpkin Catapult, The Lee Roberts Farm, Grantsburg, Wisconsin, October 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Yesterday Liz and I traveled out to Siren, Wisconsin with friends to check out Verne Peterson’s lifelong rock and mineral collection. It was a beautiful Fall day and the almost two hour drive flew by like [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Books, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Structure, Taos, Writers, Writing, tagged artists, Diebenkorn, Harwood Museum of Art, mentors, Natalie Goldberg, New Mexico, painters, painting on September 25, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Diebenkorn In New Mexico, Taos Mountain in the background, Taos, New Mexico, July 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
When I was in Taos in July, we carpooled over to the Harwood Museum of Art to see Diebenkorn In New Mexico. When I was looking through my Taos photos last night, I realized [...]
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Southwest Guy: Oyé, ven aquí por tu regalo gratís…
Traveler: ¿Qué cosa gratís?
Southwest Guy: Es un t-shirt *muy* bonita…que te doy después de que you fill out esté application de tarjeta crédito…
Traveler: ¡No quiero un feo t-shirt de Southwest, hombre!
Southwest Guy: Espera, hombre, you can die it black, man, and wear it camping!
-Related to post What [...]
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A Room with a View, downtown San Jose, CA, August 30, 2007, photo ©
2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
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Posted in Family, On the Road, Photography, Place, Random, Skies, Things That Fly, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged aerial photographs, aerial shots of San Jose, cell phone photography on August 29, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Arriving San Jose, CA, August 29, 2007, photo © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
I don’t know if it’s my cell phone camera, the older airplane, or San Jose, but something about this photo reminds me of a bygone era.
We’re staying in downtown San Jose. I love it.
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Posted in Bones, Books, Culture, Death, Family, Growing Older, Haiku, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Topic Writing, Wake Up, Work, Writing, Writing Practices, tagged abandoned houses, Haiku, Memoir, memories, Poetry, writing about the past on August 17, 2007 | 31 Comments »
You Can’t Go Back, one of the homes I lived in as a child, now abandoned, June 2007, Augusta, Georgia, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
I spent two weeks on the road in June, researching my book. The second week was a road trip with my mother to Georgia, where I spent much [...]
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Posted in Art, Doodling, Family, Gratitude, Love, On the Road, Practice, Spirituality, Wake Up, Work, tagged children's art, Look to this Day, summer camp for kids on August 14, 2007 | 12 Comments »
This year at my daughters’ summer camp, the art instructor used sketchbooks. She said sketching was in keeping with the theme for the camp, Look To This Day. I think what she meant was that sketching was quick. You capture what’s in front of you — a hand, a tree, maybe a thing floating in [...]
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Posted in Death, Family, Fotoblog, Holding My Breath, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Structure, Taos, tagged fear of bridges, fear of heights, Minneapolis bridge collapse, New Mexico, Rio Grande Gorge Bridge on August 2, 2007 | 38 Comments »
Approaching the Rio Grande Gorge, photo © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
I’ve always been afraid of bridges. I remember last year Natalie Goldberg took us slow-walking the length of the Rio Grande Gorge bridge outside Taos. I had to walk as close to the road and as far from the railing as possible. Each [...]
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Posted in Art, Art of Rebellion, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Fotoblog, Jugular, Life, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Spirituality, Travel, Vision, Wake Up, tagged Art, Casa Azul, Culture, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo Centennial Celebration, Laura Stokes, Mexico, Mexico City, painting, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Photography, pilgrimage, red Ravine Guests, social justice on July 30, 2007 | 14 Comments »
By Laura Stokes
Casa Azul, the home where Frida Kahlo was born, lived, and died; July 2007, photo © 2007 by Laura Stokes, all rights reserved.
Acting on dream and impulse, we found ourselves in Mexico City last weekend at the Frida Kahlo Centennial Celebration at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. I had read [...]
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Posted in Authors, Books, Culture, On the Road, Quotes, Random, Reading, Structure, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Books, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Reading on July 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Near the end of the evening, I felt like posting something. I looked at my book case and grabbed Kerouac’s On the Road. I’ve been wanting to read it for years. But there it sits, untouched. Occasionally, I pick the book up and roll the soft cover over in my hands, take my time running [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Authors, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Haiku, Nature, On the Road, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Travel, Wake Up, Writing, tagged Haiku, Poetry, Seasons, summer, Taos Mountain, Travel on July 16, 2007 | 6 Comments »
-Taos Mountain In Summer, July 2007, behind Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Taos Mountain summer
wraps hard rain around soft bows
I’m drenched to the bone
black clouds in blue sky
slatted swing over the ditch
creaks slowly, I write
rain crawls through roof cracks
gusts blow open my notebook
words scatter to wind
cottonwood [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Body, Bones, Books, Culture, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Home, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Travel, Wake Up, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Natalie Goldberg, New Mexico, retreats, Taos, the practice of writing, Writers, Writing on July 11, 2007 | 9 Comments »
-Mabel’s Dining Room, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, July 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s summer at Mabel’s. The wind whipped through the cottonwoods after a hot, muggy day. I was drenched in sweat while giving the presentation on When the Emperor Was Divine. And then, the rain came. A [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Books, Culture, Family, Haiku, Life, Love, Memoir, Money, Nature, On the Road, Poetry, Politics, Random, Relationships, Structure, Writers, Writing, tagged Chicano authors, Chicano identity, Chicano poetry, Ghost Ranch, L. Luis Lopez, Musings of a Barrio Sack Boy, New Mexico, New Mexico culture, poems about fathers, poems about mental illness on July 10, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I first heard L. Luis López read his poetry a year ago at the Ghost Ranch “Coffee House.” Coffee House is an open-mic event held Thursday nights to highlight the diverse talents of that week’s participants. I remember Luis standing at the front of the large hall where Coffee House is held, clearing his throat before reading. The room got quiet, [...]
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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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Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Dreams, Great Places To Write, Nature, On the Road, Photography, Place, Quotes, Relationships, Skies, Spirituality, Travel, tagged Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, images of The Pedernal, The Pedernal on July 8, 2007 | 24 Comments »
Georgia’s Mountain, view of The Pedernal taken from Ghost Ranch main building July 7, 2007, photo © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
In June of 1934, Georgia O’Keeffe visited Ghost Ranch for the first time. She purchased the house where she’d been staying on the ranch in 1940.
Of “The Pedernal,” the flat-topped mountain in the [...]
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Posted in Family, Life, On the Road, Personal, Random, Travel, blogroll, tagged family vacations, Ghost Ranch, motherhood on July 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It finally cooled down here in Ghost Ranch. The temperature hit at least 100 a couple of days ago (that’s what the thermometer in my car said, although someone today told me that a meteorologist here told her it hit 106). At this altitude (around 6,000 feet) the air is thin and the sun deadly. Rain came [...]
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Posted in Bones, Great Places To Write, Haiku, Holding My Breath, Nature, On the Road, Place, Poetry, Practice, Taos, Travel, Wake Up, tagged Ghost Ranch, Haiku, New Mexico, Practice, Taos, Writers, writing retreats on July 6, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I found these haiku in the pages of a notebook I was rereading from August of 2006. Has it really been almost a year? They were written at Ghost Ranch when I got separated from the writing group after lingering too long at the pond. I sat on the prickly ground, alone and silent, chewing [...]
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Posted in Authors, Family, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Holidays, Money, Nature, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Spirituality, blogroll, tagged family vacations, Ghost Ranch, Kitchen Mesa, New Mexico, photos of Ghost Ranch on July 5, 2007 | 20 Comments »
This is the second year in a row (which I suppose is long enough to call a tradition) that my daughters and I are spending a week at Ghost Ranch. I lived 44 years in New Mexico before ever laying eyes on Kitchen Mesa. I don’t know what took me so long to get here, [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Family, Great Places To Write, Home, On the Road, Photography, Place, Practice, Random, Silence, Skies, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Wake Up, Writing, tagged Mabel Dodge Luhan House, New Mexico on June 23, 2007 | 9 Comments »
-Inside, Outside, view from Ansel Adams room, April 2007, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
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Posted in Bones, Creative Nonfiction, Culture, Dreams, Essay, Family, Jugular, Life, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Place, Politics, Relationships, Structure, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged agents, Agents & Editors Conference, Austin, Carolyn Flynn, conferences, editors, red Ravine Guests, Texas, Writers, Writing on June 21, 2007 | 33 Comments »
By Carolyn Flynn
I keep telling my father to go away. But here he is in Austin, Texas, on the sign at the construction site one block from my hotel. FLYNN it says in all caps, Flynn Construction, and it’s red, white and blue like the logo for my father’s home building company. Just like it, [...]
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Posted in Bones, Books, Dreams, Family, Growing Older, Haiku, Home, Life, Love, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Random, Relationships, Skies, Things That Fly, Travel, Writers, Writing, tagged flying, Haiku, Home, Memoir, people on planes, Poetry, St. James, time warp, Writers, Writing on June 12, 2007 | 9 Comments »
-Time at St. James, by the Madison Clock Company, 1847, on the wall at St. James United Methodist Church, Augusta, Georgia, June 6th, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Home Haiku
the thing about home
home hangs its weathered straw hat
on what used to be you
After we circled twice, the landing gear whirred and dropped [...]
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Posted in Bones, Family, Maps, Memoir, On the Road, Photography, Place, Random, Relationships, Travel, Writing on June 11, 2007 | 5 Comments »
-The Last Magnolia, June 9th, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Found on the grounds of Richmond Academy in Augusta, Georgia. My mother went to high school there. School had long been out. And we were taking one last drive around Augusta before leaving for home. I picked up this giant magnolia leaf [...]
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Posted in Body, Bones, Culture, Family, Life, Maps, Memoir, On the Road, Personal, Photography, Place, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Travel, Writing, tagged exhaustion, Georgia, Memoir, Pennsylvania, research, rivers, Susquehanna River, Travel, Writers, Writing on June 10, 2007 | 17 Comments »
-Sweet William, Sunday, June 10, 2007, photo © 2007 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
We completed the 11 hour drive from Georgia to Pennsylvania at midnight last night. We took our time driving, soaking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, whizzing under the green sign for Virginia Tech, stopping at the Waffle House and Cracker Barrel for slow, relaxing [...]
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