Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
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.
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!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Alan Watts - "Creating Who You Are"
time to check in and listen to some of the Thoughts of Alan Watts and to ponder.....
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