Tag: Poetry
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Flicker Feather?
This morning, eyes down, surveying the dirt for precocious bulb shoots tricked by the lack of snow, my eye caught site of this bold but small feather. Perfection. Found art. An artistic artifact. Nestled into the weathered end grain of logs slowly succumbing to the sirencall of weather — rain, sun, snow, wind — and…
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Joyful Joinery
Revisiting a reflection on “Durable Joinery” from one year ago because… circularity. A regathering of ideas once again — and probably forever — relevant. Recollecting. Relearning. Mission Intermission Joints. Joinery.Durable joinery.Rejoinery.Durable. Dynamic.Durable dynamics.Team dynamics…interrupted.Progress interrupted. Again.Stutter steps.Impromptu regrouping.Remapping. Rebooting.”There are timeswhen the border —between brokenand unbroken —blursand faultines become fractures.”Would woodworkingsuccor?Would wood joineryreconjoin?Might metaphormend?Joining, conjoining,…
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My Funny Valentine
Today my beautiful bride and I celebrate twenty two Valentine’s Days together. That’s a whole lot of love! As I proposed last year, I think we should make EVERY day Valentine’s Day. Let’s celebrate love. And what better way to say I love you than a poem, a sun-soaked ski, and a romantic dinner? My…
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A Lure Allure
Found artifacts. Found art. Found stories. Found poetry… Art from artifacts, I pledge again and again. Glen sent me this photo earlier today. He came across it snagged on the dock, revealed by the ever so slowly receding water, still about 2 feet higher than historic mean. I immediately abandoned the blog post I was…
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Poetics of Planing
As Tony concludes his transformation of our homegrown cedar into finish grade planks for the privacy fence enclosure I pause to ponder the poetics of planing. Almost 3-1/2 months ago, the notion appeared as part of a poem. Come and chant with me,a poetics of planing —unroughing, smoothingtruing, straightening —for patient makersalchemizing plants in-to ingredients…
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Sometimes Snow
Such a privilege spending time in the snow, in the mountains, skiing with my bride and my nephews. Sometimes snow is a gentle reminder to venture outdoors with people who make us feel alive. Sometimes snow challenges plans,bumps logistics,and fiddle bowsanxietiesinto brokenshards of glass.Sometimes snowfalls thick and fastin the steep woodsday after daygentling rocksand fallen…
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Family Traditions: Top 5
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions. Hhhmmm… Family traditions. What are our family traditions? That’s an interesting question, and I’m not 100% certain that I have answers at the ready. But a few ideas come to mind. Canis familiaris Let’s start with the beautiful beast snoozing in a sun puddle at my…
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Leisure Time: Top 5
What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? Work and leisure are less clearly delineated for me than I suspect they are for others. Less binary, more overlapping. Sure, there have been plenty of unleisurely stretches of work throughout my life, but the sense of accomplishment and discipline and investment transcends this overly…
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Dream Job
What’s your dream job? Saturday, a day for job dreaming, right? Or telemark skiing… That’s how I spent my day. But now it’s time to wax wordy about my dream job. Jobs? Hybrid job? A dream job spanning diverse occupations, vertically dissimilar vocations. Let’s start with a few of the more obvious ingredients for my…
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Un-invent Leaf Blowers!
If you could un-invent something, what would it be? A pretty whimsical consideration, but I’ll take the bait. Of course there are all sorts of tragic happenings across human history that might make tempting subjects. Likewise a few technologies that offer at least as many dangers as benefits that invite consideration for un-inventing. (Where is…
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Communicate, Poemunicate
In what ways do you communicate online? At first tempted to shrug off today’s blog prompt, a rush of inspiration like a wild pony, inviting me on a mad dash, I decided to risk the ride. Once upon a timea woman, a man,a tumbling home,a bookish bent, anda one-man stage act. Now digital and3-dimensional,a virtual…
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Billboard Bias
I prologue today’s post with an unapologetic nota bene. I am biased in favor of trees and lakes and meadows. Not billboards. I favor mountains, valleys, and architecture. Not billboards. I enjoy wildlife, scenic vistas, and sunsets. Not billboards. Detecting a pattern? In short, my billboard bias ill equips me to respond enthusiastically to this…