Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts, "Sunset flips and fishes", White Staircase Project, Fall 2009

in the flurry of the season, i forgot to upload this week's YouTube Video! Please take a moment
to SHARE this video with friends, family, children, neighbors, teachers, and students. thank you
all so much for watching!

Pro Infirmis «Because who is perfect?»

"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun." - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games.

Violet is as Violet Does, A Sunset Adorned

Photograph of the Day - a Violet Sunset at the Chelsea Creek Wildlife and Coastal Habitat, made all the more violet by me. I make sure i wake to see the Sunrise each morning - something my mother did all of her life - because she was an early riser. my most indelible image of her, is her coming into the kitchen at dawn, pausing at her kitchen window to listen to the songbirds she feeds, drinking her water, and going out the door to work. it was as though her speech was equally like a songbirds- a petite, dark brown haired delicate woman, whom seemed to walk like a bird herself - delicately. this sunset is equally as delicate - they happen just only occasionally. that day, i kept walking along the parkway trail across the Bridge that spanned the Chelsea Creek (and crossed Broadway) and then picked up the Official Chelsea Creek Access trail that winds down about another mile or so. it just continued to get more and more Violet until a Full Moon Rose and the sky was a dark colbalt blue. it's all about the Riches of Colors for me..

Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts, "Riches and Colors", White Staircase Project, Fa...

The Season is upon us, the Holidays are now here, and let us be of good wishes and good cheer! Please take a moment to SHARE this story wherevere you like to share online - your family, friends, children, classmates, teachers, community groups, or pages you manage. Your Support is appreciated!

Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts, "Treasure Anchors", NazuLines spokenword, Fall 2013

Commemorating the 35th President of the United States,
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Also a very special poem written
while i lived at the Slade Spice MIll. Please take a moment to SHARE this video anywhere you like sharing; with family, friends,
children, and teachers or pages you manage. Thanks so much for watching. <3

Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts "Truth and Survival" Hurricane Bill, White Stair...

Today's YouTube Wednesday takes us back to the days after Hurricane Bill in Summer of 2009.
Tip of the Hat to my Co-Producers, Patricia Rossetti-Buckley and Abby Isenburg Sorrell, whom have
creative ideas to offer and whom listen to mine, and hopefully you will enjoy this chapter about Gus, the Swan and the challenges it presented -but most of all taught us all how fragile and yet how important our saltmarshes and wetlands are. Thank you. If you like this video, please SHARE it anywhere you like to shrare online - with your friend, family, local nature groups, class at school or community.

Don't Stop Believing. dana-zoe

Cambridge, Massachusetts NazuLines, "Dare" Summer 2013

today is a good day to speak words.....

Chelsea, Massachusetts, "Walk, Love, Geese", Schaumburg Dailies, Summer ...

Today's Youtube Wednesday is Episode Two from the "Schaumburg Dailies" project, about the three families of Canadian Geese and their Goslings. Please remember to SHARE this video with your children, parents, teachers, community leaders, and anywhere else you like to share online! Thanks for Watching Season Three!

Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts, White Staircase Project, "It's Snowy on th...

Season Three, Episode Two - This week's YouTube Wednesday is about
the Snowy Egrets that have begun to flourish on the Chelsea Creek. Lot's
of great facts to share with your Child, or Parent, or Teacher - and become
part of the army of Citizen-Scientist. You Can find the Creek Bird counts
on eBird.org under Slade Mill, or Cronin Ice Rink. Enjoy!

Chelsea, Massachusetts, White Staircase Project, "A Swan's Lake to Love"...

Welcome to the Season Three Premiere of the White Staricase Project "A Swan's Lake to Love", Fall 2009. This Season will continue to tell the story of Gus, the Swan. Both Patricia Rossetti-Buckley and myself hope you enjoy and share this story with a special person, or child, and anywhere you share online. Thanks for Watching!

Chelsea, Massachusetts, Notesfromthefield, Summer Hiatus "the Best Mail ...

Janet sends me the Best Mail In The World! This is my tribute video to her, and to everyone
one of you for giving me so much care and love......

Chelsea, Massachusetts, Gardens "Distant Past & its' Laments, Summer 2013

Today is YouTube day. and it is my yearly Contemplation about the arid and mystical force of Love in our lives.

Mladen Pecović - Gora

this guitar gently weeps for this musician.....

Chelsea, Massachusetts, Nftf, "Walking the Delaware Distance" , Summer ...

i know, it's belated Friday. but I"m here. day two post infusion #2. good thing i know how to box - i'm giving as good as i'm getting. anways, "i HAVE walked the Delaware Distance". forever. now. still.  yet.

Cambridge, Massachusetts NazuLines Spokenword "World of Grey" Spring Sno...

a YouTube Belated Thursday Video about the last snow in Spring 2013. I am always wistful for the Fall and Winter. Always.

Chelsea, Massachusetts, CCCats, "Ah, Perchance to Dream", No 2

Join with me as I Celebrate Belated YouTube Thursday with a small ditty about my little "Kat", Lily-Kaitlyn, whom I adopted Six years ago this past Spring! Thanks to everyone for continuing to watch and enjoy my photography and videos!

Chelsea, Massachusetts, Nftf , "Let Tears Fall from Heaven", Summer 2013

Happy Fourth! This week's YouTube Wednesday brings a rainy day at Revere Beach. I love the Ocean, and am grateful to all those whom helped make this dream come true - It will now just be a very short trip to sit by the Sea.

Chelsea, Massachusetts, Greetings, "Kitten Mitten" , Spring 2013 no 2

Hello! it's me. i've Moved. I love cats.

Welcome to my Virtual Chelsea Art Walk! (playlist)

Waiting for the Shuttle to take you to the next stop on the Chelsea Art Walk? Well, Welcome to my Virtual Chelsea Art Walk - i submit to you three new slideshow/videos for you to snack on while you wait! Enjoy!

Chelsea Creek, Massachusetts, "A Postcard Day" with Gus, The Swan, Summe...

YouTube Wednesday's "A Postcard Day" is early - I am moving back to Chelsea this week, and will be there in time for the Annual Chelsea Art Walk, June 15,16 a city wide event that showcases all the venues and artists from this wonderful Artist Colony in New England. if you have a chance - visit. Public transportation can take to you to all the venues. so, many, many more "Postcard Days" are ahead of me, and the story of Chelsea Creek will continue to be an important part of my life. To LIFe!

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Notesfromthefield, Salem, 'Summer Glee"

Photograph of the Day, June 04, 2013. Taken along Chelsea Creek at Summers-End.

A Favorite Poem: "truely madly deeply." by steve roggenbuck

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nazulines Spokenword, "Avatar Angel", Memoria...

Intro Trailer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, NotesFromTheField, Intro, Dana-Zoe Gest Photog...

Photograph of the Day, for Sunday, 26 May

a beautiful view of a window and its tree not yet ready for spring, taken a few weeks ago, while traveling through CharlesGate East on the way home from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

This week was a real surprise. I did start off auspiciously with a trip to secure a new place to live in Chelsea, just accross the Boston Harbor, back into the same neighborhood that i lived in the Mill Hill/Box District. cross your fingers for me! and my friend drove me out to Wakefield-Melrose to the Ell Pond to see a pair of Nesting Swans. we both took some wonderful Photographs, and in contrast to the care with which the Ell Pond governing committee took to provide some measure of privacy, the boat dock was blocked off as the nest was in the rushes at the dock, along with a Mallard Duck Nest.
From the size of the swans, they are still a young couple, but the nest was very typical, very big and broad in Circumference with a very deep bowl. the townspeople refer to them as "Mel" and "Rose".
there was a group there which constantly changed as poeple came to ooh and aah, and like us, take some photographs. a Peek at the Eggs when "Rose" changed her position on the Next revealed them to be Green in color, which means close to the Hatch Watch. It was a first Outing for me other than my Medical Care Visits for the Breast Cancer and it went well. Stong one day, then not so much for several days after i am trying to remember that my body doesn't know it had surgery -- it thinks a Lion or Coyote bit me- and it is still in shock. Faith, Fortitude and Grace....and Patience with the body's healing.

Final Sketch Proof Finished. 18" x 24"

this is the final proof sketch of an idea that took several years and several smaller drawings to complete. Like my poetry, inspiration doesnt come all at once, but in spurts. so the original idea has also changed as its' lines have changed. This is dark Drawing Pencil, on Canon Classic Cream Drawing Paper, which is my favorite. now, i can take this and convert it into any manner of other kind of project, like prints, or embroidery banners. I like the end result a lot. it feels very organic and has a nice flow about it. Hope you enjoy!

The Ordinary of the Day must not be disturbed by our over-reaching.. letting the current go....

YouTube's 2nd Slice - Tribute to Honor DropKick Murphys EP Release of "Rose Tattoo"

YouTube Wednesday's 1st Slice - New Trailer for my Spokenword...Enjoy!

POSITIV & FRIKEDUP vibes with this BOOST....

Cambridge, Massachusetts, NazuLines spokenwod "Bloom" Spring 2013

This was last week's video -- but i'm still getting used to Blogger. just to let you all know, i generally publish a video/slideshow/poem/story once a weeek - YouTube Wednesdays. i also generall publish a photograph every day of the world around me, or events happening around me.

that said, although i have'nt really talked yet about it,  i found a lump in my right breast last november, and was formally diagnosed in April as having Breast Cancer stage lll. At that time, i was also given information that i had the genetic marker for breast Cancer, and a double mastectomy would have taken my still viable risk down exponentially if i had opted for a double mastectomy.
but the world around me, as it always does, has its own flow and current. in therapy for general conditiong for a permenant spinal injury, it became apparent almost simlutaneously as i learned about the cancer that i  need to have a right knee total replacment, with a eye on other knee in the future.
seems strangely fitting that my entire right side clammered for its attention at this time, while yet showing that my left side would then need it again down the road. Symmetry of an unexpected kind.

"Bloom" has always been one of my favorite poems. it flowed out and has stayed the same, for several years now--i save every scrap of wriring that comes to me inspired, even if only two lines becuase sometimes the rest doesn't come until much later. i'm unlcear why the inspiration stops and starts. i have the same experience with my drawing/painting. so i've learned to log everything in to the masterbooks, and keep the material safe. "Boom" represent that idea of saving all those little pieces of heaven, those petals, those leaves that tumble down into my hands.

this weeks poem is "Relentless Tiger" . this is matched up with photographs i took when i visited my Son - Flash - in Arizona in November of 2011, specifically of an sunset trip we took to the top of South Mountain, a vista from which you can see for a hundred miles into the dusk. having lived in the southwest during my College years, it was as exactly as i rememberd it to be, all turqouis and gold and coral - all shadows and lines, and dazzling stars, which we saw my last night there at the local Desert Museum, also on a day when we talked about how compromised my walking had become.

Relentless Tiger seems as though there is still more to be written yet, but it stands on its own for the moments, learning to walk accross my mind and whisper in the ear.

i hope you enjoy both entries.

dz.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, NazuLines spokenwod "Bloom" Spring 2013

Cambridge, Massachusetts, NazuLines spokenword Relentless Tiger", Spring...

Alan Watts - "Creating Who You Are"

time to check in and listen to some of the Thoughts of Alan Watts and to ponder.....

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Notes from the Field, "I Am MerelyTraveling", ...