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Today's mailman asked about the dog, having not seen her for a while. He said she was one of the few who didn't bark at him. I might be snuffling as I type. ( Read more... )
Finally: I started this entry some hours ago. Night has fallen, so let there be light.

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Current Location: Nashville

[The subject line is from Barbara Jordan's "Bruegel's Crows," in Channel.]

Some days, things mushroom like mad:

They might even get decidedly warped:

It's okay. There will be other days full of light...

and sweetness:

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Nashville
Current Music: sloshing dishwasher

[The subject line is from Barbara Jordan's "Bruegel's Crows," in Channel.]

Some days, things mushroom like mad:

They might even get decidedly warped:

It's okay. There will be other days full of light...

and sweetness:

This entry was originally posted at http://zirconium.dreamwidth.org/131452.html.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Nashville
Current Music: sloshing dishwasher

[subject line from Matthew Arnold's Lines Written in Kensington Gardens, which correspond to a UU hymn set to a Thomas Tallis canon that I often play when in need of solace]

(The Writing on the Pharaoh's Wall (detail), Gabriel Shaffer, Asheville Art Museum)

Hello, new month
of maybes, maybeings,
and wish-I-mays now here --
behold how bedecked
you already are
with swirls of stitchery

already a diary
of crossouts and detours
and acronymed prayers
and half-rehearsed words
and words for rehearsals.

To tally today:
how many angels
in toeshoes on
the sparkling tips
of pinwheel spokes?

Any minute now
the rules that you thought
were to keep you in line

will vault
with a vehemence
over the handlebars.

O brace yourself
for the many-tongued wind

its whipsharp accents
its cloudblurred vowels

you will grapple for years
with what it has to say to you.

~pld

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Current Location: Nashville
Current Music: Piedmont Singers, Tallis's Canon

...of a sort. William Ackland was a son of Adelicia Acklen, who led quite a life in Nashville some 150-ish years ago.

There are three Picassos on display in one of the galleries, but my favorite painting in the collection is Rose Piper's Slow Down Freight Train:

On the opposite wall, there's a recently restored Rousseau painting of Paris. That captured my attention as well.

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Current Location: Nashville

...of a sort. William Ackland was a son of

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Current Location: Nashville

2015:
firmly rooted to the floor
yet floating

(Playing within a thicket of mirrors at the Asheville Art Museum. Album here.)

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...everyone has some. But now, looking out there,
she felt easy, at home in the world -- maybe like
a casual snowflake. And some people loved her.
She would remember that. And remember this place.

As you will, wherever you go after this day,
just a stop by the road, and a glimpse of someone's life,
and your own, too, how you can look out any time,
just being a part of things, getting used to being a person,
taking it easy, you know.

-- William Stafford, "Emily, This Place, and You," in The Way It Is

Snapshots of the audience at a Charanga Carolina concert one year ago:
( Read more... )

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Current Mood: cheerful

[woman lighting candles - Israeli doll at the Doll & Miniature Museum of High Point]

Here is my bouquet, here is a sing
song of all the things you make
me think of, here is oblique
praise for the height and depth
of you and the width too.
Here is my box of new crayons at your feet.
- Marge Piercy, Colors Passing Through Us

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Current Mood: hopeful

Mary McLeod Bethune doll, at the Doll & Miniature Museum of High Point, NC

Writing news: 7x20 recently published "Gray Areas".

Weekend reading: an interview of Bel Kaufman (author of Up the Down Staircase) by Robert Sullivan, and parts of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life. Among other things, I hadn't known she was such a Francophile. And I loved this glimpse of her Columbia j-school training:

[John] Hohenberg would run students through harrowing "speed drills"--demanding that they crank out stories in just a few minutes. And he urged everyone to keep $100 set aside. It was basically a Fuck You account--so that if an editor ever demanded that you do a story you hated, you would have at least $100 to help you walk away from the job.

[Minutaglio, Bill; Smith, W. Michael (2009-10-15). Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life (Kindle Locations 1611-1614). Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.]

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Current Location: kitchen counter
Current Music: Mika, "Elle Me Dit"

I went to a Charanga Carolina concert yesterday, in the American Tobacco District. It was a good time, in part because it was fun to watch terrific dancers getting their salsa and merengue on:

And then, at the Durham Bulls game, the grounds crew showed some moves as well:

:-)

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umbrellas roosting outside the Hen House

The summer day
smudged with humidity --
eyeshadow-colored ciphers
crowding the page in my sketchbook.

(The Hen House is a pottery and condiment shop in Highlands, NC.)

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: living room armchair

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Entries tagged with north carolina

though the frost was cruel

"our eyes, too, are calipers -- / measuring menace in a white world"

"our eyes, too, are calipers -- / measuring menace in a white world"

that there abides a peace of thine

hello, neighbor

hello, neighbor

shining strands

"There had been troubles, sure..."

l'shana tova (happy new year!)

schooling

dancers in Durham

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