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  1. don't worry in pure land

    this is a bit of a story, a letter from one person to another, in a world. i didn't include names or anything so you won't know who it is from or who it is to.

    haha don't worry, it will be and until the end of your life, i would imagine. see think about it where we are in time; we have the past behind us and the future ahead but are shielded by infinite moments, and infinite possibilities. that means our joys will be manifest over and over again, and our future life something we cannot ...
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  2. Note to readers:

    After tonight I will be gone for the better part of a week (at least). See you when I get back.

    Mary
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  3. The light is just coming

    -- the void and the art of not-seeing

    The light is just coming. Civil twilight, the sound of train wheels on steel track from the open door, my white long-haired cat, Peyote, a glimmer against the grey sidewalk. I can see through the foot high gap between the bottom of my closed blinds and the bottom of the window pane. I am typing, drinking broth, listening for the bird calls to begin rising from the wood and wire. Underneath it all, under the rumble of a truck across the bridge ...
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  4. Binding together in spite of differences

    First I’d like to give an update on my chickens. After the great chicken massacre I was left with two chicks I had hatched in an incubator, four hens and a rooster. One hen was hiding and came home four days after the slaughter. Two hens were setting- one is still but the other hid her nest in the yard and hatched her chicks which were all eaten by a snake. While I was away this weekend my husband got me seven more hens already laying. He’s so sweet! So I’m up to fourteen now. Not as many as I had, ...
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  5. Forest Bliss pics!

    For Countess! These are some of the pictures that my family took while visiting Fangorn and Lothlorien and Rivendell. The last one is a picture of me and my Mom taken at a beach in Oregon while we all were coming down home again. Hope you like them! (Sorry they're big but I couldn't stand the thought of making them any smaller!)



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