Self Portrait

When I look in a mirror, 

I always have thought "I don't look like me"

but bowling next to us the other night

was this little girl

and I gushed with an inner joy.

She embodied a sparkly self - essence if you will -

replete with bowling shoes.

(pixie dust and sparkle wand not pictured)

Crushed Hopes

Just outside our local Quickie Mart

I spied this sign in the parking lot

... aw, just as I was lacing up 

the new ice skates 

I got for Christmas!

Did I mention

that I live in San Diego?

Rainwater Tea

2 days later...

New Hit Single This Holiday Season

I've come up with the title for this holiday season's new hit single.


My Fish Don't Know It's Christmas Time -
but I doooo...

jingle bells.
jingle bells -
gurgle, gurgle, pop...

Majestic's Canvas

moment's breath. there is only the sound of excruciating awe

in

as

and of

the everything

how is it possible

to be sitting

here and there

still

whilst inside

obliterated   

expanded   

and

consumed   

O

it all comes from the same place
is made from the same stuff
returns back from itself into itself
            and back to forth
... with maybe a bit of rest now and then too

but not really




what a glorious miracle "reality" is -
so darn believable!

Postcards From The Path, San Francisco

The Beat Museum

I was inspired - Poetry Bombing at 

The Beat Museum,

 San Francisco, CA, USA

A nod to George Rodrigue with a little twist and glitter

Love the detail on this grate-ffiti.  (you will have to zoom in)

Fun to have spied this style around the city.

(Same artist below)

The Bay - San Francisco's Symphony Hall's loading bay that is.

I currently have a cone fixation as I am currently working on a silly series with them.  

I like how taking the vibrancy out of the color by going grey scale forces the viewer to see the familiar objects as part of a composition.  The texture and pattern is yummy and I can hear the Sesame Street tune "one of these is not like the other..." playing in the back of my mind - even though all the objects are traffic related items.

I guess it would be nice of me to show the original photo, but I'm not going to. One's mind already has filled in the colors, 

lighting a smile of recognition.