Friday, January 18, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
sea dreams among the mesquite
I posted a basic and perfunctory Noel 2007 reflection over on an inactive blog, but about a third of the way into January I have a really good one for today! For starters, during my recent visit to Tucson, the ride toward the international border as we drove out to Rio Rico-Rich River was amazing! Remember, this is the Sonoran desert with its exceptional biodiversity that absolutely for sure does not include coastal, shoreside, seashore, seaside or beach habitat. I love the title I gave this post—back in my cultural anthropology classes, the professor frequently commented on people stereotyping to such a degree they talked about customs, etc. "among the whomever whatever whichever" culture in question, but today I truly am writing about things I witnessed amidst desert plants like the (yes, stereotypical, usual) mesquite and similar. The fun thing was the street names that included nautical language like océano, mar, ballena, mariscos, embarcadero, muelle, playa, langosta, huracán, agua linda, agua salada, (plus Finlandia and Dinamarca).
I've blogged and posted some pictures from the seafaring town of Harwich, Massachusetts and about Salem, Massachusetts―we'd drive up the shore from Boston to Salem when we lived in Boston and later up the Shore to Marblehead, Ipswich and Gloucester when we lived in Salem, but in those cases you'd expect the vocabulary to align with the land- and seascape, which it sometimes did, though lots of streets and roads and churches and buildings got named after historical people or happenings.
On our exodus out of Rio Rico, we enjoyed cattle crossing―javalina, too, but didn't get any pics of the javvies. Given the considerable size of the bovine population cohort, we were able to get some great cattle pics; you can see four of the best right here!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
poetry party 10
poetry party 10: welcoming this new year
Christine's words:
The photo was taken in Squamish, British Columbia on a foggy December day. I love fog because of its mystery, not knowing what is being cloaked in its mist. The New Year offers us new possibilities we may have no inkling of just yet, but we are invited to fly, our beating hearts and beating wings carrying us forward into the unknown. What does the new year evoke for you?first, memories:
early morning summer fog crawls along Harwich, Pleasant Bay
later creeps inland from Salem Willows
and
surprisingly after a sunny morning
quickly Prospects up from Windansea—
on that same Saturday afternoon I pictured afternoon fog...
now, this new year 2008:
started in another cloud of apparently obliterated expectations
but next the Spirit remembered me into trusting
God who makes everything new
journeys alongside us
and surprises us with resurrection
often emerging through foggy haze
what does this year 2008 mean for me, for us?
new life despite and because of shattered pasts?
oh, yes! of this I am so very, very sure!
Friday, January 04, 2008
F5_01_2008
from Sally and RevGalBlogPals, new year resolutions friday 5
1. Do you make New Year resolutions?
laid out some plans and aspirations for 2008. but that doesn't quite answer Sally, so i'll say technically i really don't and never really have (made new year's resolutions). however, i like being aware of some kind of demarcations and distinctions between that old year and this new one.
2. Is this something you take seriously, or is it a bit of fun?
one of the reasons i don't often resolve much for any new year is that i tend to take everything seriously, but for fun i enjoy eating traditional new year's food (which i didn't do for 2008, since i was out of town), especially pickled herring and hoppin' john.
3. Share one goal for 2008.
constantly living 'as if'—always, in every day and way, to practice resurrection, to quote Wendell Berry, and as Sheryl Crow sings, "these are the days when anything goes—every day is a winding (yet open!) road..."
4. Money is no barrier, share one wild/ impossible dream for 2008
globally wild: obliterate world hunger
more home frontally wild: better all-over care for returning and especially disabled military veterans
5. Someone wants to publish a story of your year in 2008, what will the title of that book be?
given that i expect 2008 to be far better than 2007, it'll be called practicing resurrection along life's winding road (kind of dumb, i know, but it's already 8:15 am)
1. Do you make New Year resolutions?
laid out some plans and aspirations for 2008. but that doesn't quite answer Sally, so i'll say technically i really don't and never really have (made new year's resolutions). however, i like being aware of some kind of demarcations and distinctions between that old year and this new one.
2. Is this something you take seriously, or is it a bit of fun?
one of the reasons i don't often resolve much for any new year is that i tend to take everything seriously, but for fun i enjoy eating traditional new year's food (which i didn't do for 2008, since i was out of town), especially pickled herring and hoppin' john.
3. Share one goal for 2008.
constantly living 'as if'—always, in every day and way, to practice resurrection, to quote Wendell Berry, and as Sheryl Crow sings, "these are the days when anything goes—every day is a winding (yet open!) road..."
4. Money is no barrier, share one wild/ impossible dream for 2008
globally wild: obliterate world hunger
more home frontally wild: better all-over care for returning and especially disabled military veterans
5. Someone wants to publish a story of your year in 2008, what will the title of that book be?
given that i expect 2008 to be far better than 2007, it'll be called practicing resurrection along life's winding road (kind of dumb, i know, but it's already 8:15 am)
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
leah sophia: recipe
thanks and happy 2008 to purpletologically speaking
| The Recipe For leah sophia |
 3 parts Daring 2 parts Savvy 1 part Superiority Splash of Grace Chug! |
recipe for desert spirit
thanks and happy 2008 to purpletologically speaking
| The Recipe For desert spirit |
3 parts Giddiness 2 parts Kindness 1 part Flair Splash of Charisma Sip slowly on the beach |
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