Blogroll cleanup

Just a note that I went through my blogroll today and deleted links to blogs that were inactive. If your blog was among the deleted and you go back to active posting, please let me know.

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Rumi

Rumi was born September 30, 1207. The anniversary of his birth is coming up on Sunday. Since I don’t always post on Sunday, I’m celebrating his life today with this poem by Rumi.
A Star Without a Name
When a baby is taken from the wet nurse,
it easily forgets her
and starts eating solid food.
Seeds feed awhile on [...]

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A new CD

A new CD is a celebration. A new CD is a slow-down and listen carefully party. A new CD is a chance to discover something wonderful.
Discovering something wonderful is what happened when I bought The New Bossa Nova by Luciana Souza after hearing a few bars of one of the tunes on the radio.
Luciana Souza’s [...]

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The mail

When I opened my sister’s door there was an unopened pile of mail on the entry table. The place had a deserted feel, which explained why she wasn’t answering my phone calls. I looked at the mail and saw that the piece on top had a recent postmark.
Who was bringing it in her for her? [...]

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I Love It When

I love it when the weather is in that open window phase. When you don’t need store-bought energy to cool or heat your house to make it comfortable. The morning chill is stimulating, the afternoon warmth is perfectly suited to outdoor living. I love a day when the walkers and runners and bikers mob the [...]

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Favorite Sunday Things

What are your favorite Sunday things to do? Just asking the question reminded me of a high school date I had. The boy later owned up to being gay, but at this time he was still in denial. We parked in front of my house at the end of a Saturday night date. He was [...]

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Fog

Even as the sun rose and the looming fog moisture that coated the ground began to evaporate away, the moisture remained on the mountain, stuck. It fell into the canyons and remained there, a white wisp across the dark mass of granite and pines that filled our eastern sky.
You could see wet tendrils reaching up [...]

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Slow moving

Gosh, I feel like a slow-moving river these days. Think it could be the barometric pressure or the phase of the moon? If I was once white water, I am now a boggy, silt filled cul de sac of eddies.
How many joints do you have in your foot? When I climb out of bed, I [...]

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The Dollar Store

Shelley signed the papers in the lawyers office that started her divorce in progress. She drove to the apartment complex nearest her office and rented a one bedroom apartment. Then she drove to the Dollar Store and bought enough dishes, pans, silverware and linens to sleep and eat in her new home. She drove to [...]

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Ants

The nightmare was suitable material for a horror movie. The plot line needed work, but the ants were scary as hell. Moving, surging, undulating, waves of ants covering the ground, scaling the trees, making the tall grass shudder with their passage. A blanket of black, creeping like mold over everything in its path. It had [...]

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