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A reciprocal boat
Sometimes the boat NEEDS to sink, little miss willpower. Sometimes it’s just time to release Her. Boats are practical things that keep you afloat on water, carry what you need for a journey, bring back what you harvest. They are all female. Boats are dreams, freedoms, passions, yearnings. They are shared, protected, obvious solitudes. In […]
Colour Pages #3: inside blue
Blue is internal. It’s the other side of sunlight, where solitude lives. Demons also live there. If you don’t make friends with the demons and fully acknowledge their right to live in the shadows, they grow malevolent. Eventually, inevitably the malevolence comes to find you in the dark, biting. This is an excellent method for self-administered shock therapy, […]
This morning’s texture
The rain on our tin roof keeps me dreaming past the appointed 6 am, then 7am, and even the waking realization of this isn’t jarring. Now coffee’d and downstairs beside the fire, I gaze out the window where the cat uncurls into a stretch. It really should be snow, but the effect is the same: […]
Reflections in Cordwood
It’s as good a time as any for reflection. 6am, still dark outside in the northern hemisphere. I sit at the downstairs table beside a pinging wood stove. It’s beaming heat onto the cat, who’s a puddle of contentment. We began this house project in 2006 with the enthusiasm and energy of young saplings reaching […]