Been awhile

Well i got started and apparently that was enough. Have been away for (quite) awhile making sense and nonsense and am not sure what this space really represents for me. So in the interim my pace will be my pace. Came across this gorgeous video via the sublime Susannah and wanted to nestle it somewhere and so will hang it from a branch.

Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman. Thank you for creating and sharing this project.

xo

Steering by Starlight

The last page of Martha Beck’s book Steering by Starlight has this perfect poem which was read to her by an African guide.

Live while you are alive…
Learn to be what you are in the seed of your spirit
Learn to free yourself from all things that have molded you
And which limit your secret and undiscovered road…
Never forget that love
Requires that you be
The greatest person you are capable of being,
Self-generating and strong and gentle–
Your own hero and star…
Be grateful for life as you live it,
And may a wonderful light
Always guide you along the unfolding road.

She goes on to say this…

“No other person will ever walk the path that destiny has laid out for you, but along that path, you’ll come home to a thousand different places. You will meet your mother, your father, your twin, yourself, in a thousand different bodies. Even on the loneliest night, when it seems there is no one else on earth willing to travel such a strange and magical road, you will find your tribe out walking among the stars.”

Beautiful, no?

Blissfully Ignorant?

I have a TV in my apartment.  A very old one I found on Craigslist.  My model is of the junk in the trunk variety. The photos were full frontal strategically masking a more than ample rump which accounted for it weighing 250+ lbs. In fact for a brief moment when lifting it into my armoire I started to tip back and was sure I’d be flattened, trapped under her until the smell hit the hallway. I use this beast to watch my Netflix. I made a deliberate decision 8 years ago to not have cable in my home. I am just not equipped to filter out the crap and would be glazed over, numb in front of it or dissolving into tears at every sad (sensationalized) news story or St. Jude’s Children Hospital commercial.

The trade off of course is that is that I find out breaking news long after it’s broken and usually on an elevator’s Captivate screen. TV’s everywhere. I even saw they have them at some gas stations now (insert Seth Meyer’s voice here Really.  Really!)

Today rocked me though. I saw there had been an earthquake in Haiti, but wasn’t prepared for the images I found online. It is heart wrenching. What do we do? The lovely Denise (Boho Girl) wrote a moving post which included links to help those of us who might find ourselves at a loss.

Is it okay to be intentionally ignorant to the world at large? To censor the good, bad and the ugly. Not sure what is “right,” but I do know what I can digest and when I need the distance. So I will continue to say prayers for a people devastated, sip my wine and hope Martin Sexton’s crooning soothes me.

’bout time

I wonder how many others woke up this morning and decided at long last to join their voice to the Blogosphere chorus? Per usual I’m a beat or two late than is fashionable, but surely I’m not alone. To date I’ve been perfectly content standing in the wings, but today it feels like the right time to pull back the curtain.

My word for this newest year is CONNECT (yup requires all CAPS). You hear me squawking 2010? No doubt all the noisemakers and ruckus from last night left your ears ringing a bit. One would hope that since you are still a wee baby Mr. Annum 2009,  Sr. outfitted you properly with noise canceling headphones a la Stefani-Rossdale progeny, but just in case you didn’t hear me clearly I am writing it here, thus committing it to the Ethernet powers that be. Voila!

Note:  Wish me (a gal most likely descended from Luddites) luck as I’ve no clue how to operate this here WordPress.