Until hastas pulse out of the ground the oak and other tree pollen will cover everything. Hastas grow from thought forms. They are not there the night before and the next day they are six inches tall. A lot of plants are like that in spring. Before anything else, spring is an idea. The...
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Oil spills dinosaurs
Fossil fuels. Old ideas of how to live in this culture, like fossils, have the power of big engines, turbines, horsepower and power to the enth degree. The famous but extinct dinosaurs are now liquid petroleum. Or if that’s not quite the case, it is close. How dinosaurs could spill all over the oceans,...
If the wind means me, I’m here, here.
Way back when poet Theodore Roethke wrote a series of poems called Meditations of an Old Woman. Imagine losing your bone mass and getting lighter. Maybe our bones hollow as we grow older and with luck we grow wings to fly around. The wind means me, me. And I’m here, here. That’s what his...
Oil slicks
The Daily Neurotic at http://thedailyneurotic.com was conceived as stated to write about the dailies - and it will often take a humorous, loving and sentimental view of life events and experiences and try to bring a bit of imagination and inspiration to the ‘dailies’ we all experience. Well, there’s an immense oil slick in the...
Carabiner, or everything is connected
Molly is under the blankets. The rain is hitting the roof with that round comforting sound. This is one of those charmed moments when life is as grand as it can be. Isn’t it amazing that we live in a time when everyone is so aware of all the connections in the world? I...
Hieroglyphics
“Everything in this world has a hidden meaning…men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics…when you see them, you do not understand them. It is only years later..that you understand…” Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek I’ve misunderstood hieroglyphics for a long time. Always took them to mean the unknown. In truth it’s about a...
Starfish
A starfish’s tubular feet climbing the trees, just walking up the trees like an inch worm from the sea. All the tubes of the starfish feet, clear, translucent. Seemingly having a life of their own. I read the fur of a polar bear is tubular and translucent. Though it doesn’t look that way. But...
Feline dental hygiene
Water games that cats love can be a useful way to get the water to the right temperature for brushing your teeth. I don’t have one of those fancy faucets that heat up the water just right so that your teeth don’t jump out of your mouth in the morning when you’re brushing them....
Silent spring
I will ask for forgiveness now. Do my mea culpas and move on to a few topics, then braid them, and leave the area before anyone knows it was me. First, everyone should thank Rachel Carson for whatever part of her soul journey that decided to bring her to our planet. Her book Silent...
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