2013

Living - and already savoring - the Adventures across the backroads of western Idaho and eastern Oregon!

09 April 2012

Silence between the Notes (a poem)

Where to run, what to hum


when darkness falls?



There’s a lady who knows


about stairways and a dance.



Did she take the chance


to make sense of it all?



Can she ever be more


than she was born to be?



Will the call free her at last,


when darkness falls?

06 April 2012

Have you come to be my Friend?

Funny what happens when you turn over those proverbial rocks. Some friends glitter. Some confuse you, so you polish the stone and find it’s, well, a stone.


Some amaze. More so with acquaintances that you don’t often talk to. Like DH: “Hey, where have you been? Did you run out of things to say?”


Hah. But, like Alice in Wonderland, I sometimes stay quiet and just stare, afraid of the wrong word/thought/impulse at the wrong juncture/moment/snare. Like her, I’m afraid not all things appear as they are (aka, man, he’s weird).


How do we come to be each other’s friends? Rarely a weeky goes awry when I don’t wonder about these types of things. Maybe because it’s gratifying to bring extra stuff to ‘the game,’ being a better friend than the other person would have expected.


I count myself so lucky to have seen so many friends ‘from the inside’ and be amazed and humbled by what you do. You paint pictures that dance in my head, ones that color-in the world around me….