One of my favorite artists, Andy Goldsworthy, works in a gallery in England, to bring nature into an experience of his art. Thanks Jenny at Salt & Light for sharing on her blog where she visited the gallery!
Questions I filled out for my second visit to the Messina Cancer Center...getting my blood checked out. All is ok for now, no cancer, they reported.
The staff was very friendly. I guess I was most impressed how it felt to be around people with cancer again...the upbeat humor as well as a bit of stress. But mainly a 'caring for each other' attitude.
These were real issues, not the kind created by psychopaths in politics. Of course many people have real issues as a result of the stupidity in politics. I woke up early the other day because I thought of how I'd gladly intervene if I saw ICE acting upon any of the people around me. I'm someone who could easily be interference for the safety of others, without doing much but taking videos or standing in the way. Nobody depends upon me to provide food or shelter for others, while innocent people are being taken away from their families.
Besides, hopefully my standing up for what is right will be another brick in the resistance. However, one doesn't go back to sleep after having these thoughts.
Seen at the check-in counter at Messina Cancer Center.
My job this week is to throw away all those old journals. Who did I think I was? Someone with a life worth reading about by some descendants or another? Pshaw! Let's be realistic!
BUT, I took many photos of the pages I'd written which reflected my life history...just as a summary. Then I woke up today remembering selling my trailer to my girl friend whose husband was going to build their home on their land...and going for 3 months on a cross country trip with my older two sons. Now just when did that happen? My oldest son is a good historian, though he was just 11 at the time.
I haven't found that in my journals yet!
It was quite a snazzy 70s trailer, with sunken living room floor covered in orange shag carpeting. Pretty sure the kitchen appliances were all avocado. And a skylight over the dining area next to the sliding glass door to nowhere. I hope Stephanie Lynn Thornton (who later divorced) enjoyed it while they built their house.
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“Often, the news of the climate crisis paralyzes us with a succession of bad news that makes us feel hopeless imagining everything we’re bound to lose. Push aside that worry for a moment by listing everything that no impending disasters could take away, like the color blue, your fondest memories, or the affectionate protectiveness between parent and child of many species, including our own.”
Jessica Jacobs and Nickole Brown, from their book WRITE it! 100 Poetry Prompts To Inspire
Thanks Katharine Beckett Winship on Substack for the above quote. I no longer am a paying member, but somehow she emailed me one of her posts...and thus I read a bit about her love of the rivers.
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Hello, Barb
ReplyDeleteI am glad your check up was good news. There have been some awful reports on what's happening with ICE now.
Have a great day and happy week ahead.
Good morning. I've recently also become an early bird, probably because I still am going to bed a few hours after the sun sets (and often take naps.) Anyway I just wanted to add that the journal of hand made papers and binding is going to be kept, though I'm cutting out the parts that I wrote on. It's such a beautiful little book.
Delete...cancer has visited 3 members of our family in recent years!
ReplyDeleteThe older we get, or maybe just knowing more older people, I think, gives us more friends and relatives who have cancers. No fun.
DeleteCongrats on the screening result, and good idea to take pics of the more signficant journal entries.
ReplyDeleteMy journals contain lots of venting of emotions, when there wasn't an appropriate person to share them with. So it's a good thing I'm trashing the majority.
DeleteI'm glad you got good results. And I think blogging has often overtaken journal writing. I've never understood writing for yourself, though. To me it's writing to share.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do blog a lot more than I've journaled in the last few years. But journals are more private, kind of like diaries, where I let my hair down so to speak. You never hear half the stories!
DeleteI love Andy Goldsworthy, his whole concept of art and nature. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteThe ephemerality of some of his works was amazing also...ice, leaves, sticks. A good reminder of our place in the greater picture.
DeleteLove the new header picture and thanks so much for the video of Andy Goldsworthy. He's always been one of my favorites as well.
ReplyDeleteMy sister kept personal journals her whole life. She specified in her will that they be burned unread. Her oldest granddaughter wanted to read them but her daughter and I said no and put them on the burn pile.
Good news for you from that bloodwork!
ReplyDeleteOn my to do list is to sort through a two drawer file cabinet here by my desk. I know there is stuff to be tossed that no one who comes after me needs to read. It's Death Cleaning but done while living.