I leave my door open. i listen to the stories the wind tells in the leaves…rushing and wild to soft and sensuous. often dry leaves are blown in through my doorway, picasso captures them bravely.
i invite the sun in to tickle me. or the shadows, they tell secrets, dark ones. i listen moistly, dripping eagerness [...]
Tonight was the night the radio show i recorded with narada and jim aired. i thought it was coming on at 6:30, that’s what i told people, but i turned the internet stream on at 6 and heard it starting. i was alone in my house. a friend i had thought was coming [...]
I temporarily renamed my cat ‘halloween-face’.
she sits in my open doorway and watches the world grow outside. she looks at me with her big green cat eyes and I love her orange, black and white patches.
seasonal beingness….was a phrase my friend shakes used to describe what it is when you sit with the seasons shifting.
which [...]
wild cat you’re not tame as you seem
golden and resting right next to me
you lick the fresh milk from my fingers at dawn
stretched like a yogi then gone
tame man you’re not wild as you seem
you sit in your realms hand stretched out to me
I’ll lick the sweet milk but I’m made to be swift
I’ll not [...]
i had this stunning idea early yesterday evening. and all gungho to capture this idea and pin it down to the best song eva! the first verse flowed so sweetly, like nectar from the tangerine i had for breakfast. me licking it off my wrists and thinking, oh man, this is gonna [...]
Shakes,
i have this dream. It took me a meandering while to figure it out but once i did it was so clear that it had always been in me.
I want to live at summer camp.
the trees, and the winding forest paths that lead to a river, and hidden cottages, and secret soothing spots you [...]
a conversation between me and my soul partner in being an artist we started on an online forum which i am now posting and continuing here.
Shakes says:
erin, you have no idea how many times i’ve painted a wall or something and it doesn’t turn out the way i originally envisioned it, but creates [...]
My friend Narada hosts a show on chrw called ’spiritual journeys’( you can go to www.chrwradio.com to read more about it’s intent.) Narada asked me and my friend Jim to be on the show. The theme was spiritual music. Both Jim and I are musicians. Both jim and me live spiritual [...]
I feel in me this neccesity to pour out an immense love. it has to go into this world and make it better. my heart is breaking and i didn’t wander here carelessly, mine is not the loss of inadquacy, i don’t feel. it’s the loss of living all the way in [...]
when i was still in Kenya and sick in bed, not hearing anything and being generally feverish. i made lists of the things I’d like to do in my life, not long term, big, ambitious things. but ordinary tasks. high on the list, quaint and heartwarming was:
make pie.
typically i hate pie. the crust too thick [...]
