I was reading today ~ curled up in this vintage green comfy chair i bought at a yard sale for just a few dollars. I carried my chair all the way up the winding stairs to my studio, settling it in the corner, tossed a silk red skirt over the back for a little flair and made a tower of ‘must reads’ on the floor by it’s feet. ‘Modern Painter’ magazine which I completely love as well as poetry by Borges and Cummings amongst other sunful treasures.

I opened up my book of ee cummings poetry and it fell upon a most lovely poem which contained these lines…

“suppose
Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head’

and I thought to myself “Yes!!! Life IS an old man carrying flowers on his head.’ I felt like dancing thinking how magnificent it was that Estlin understood this and expressed it so splendidly. I love ee cummings..he also wrote in a poem

(but i imagine that yes is the only living thing)
and we’ll make yes

Imagine! Making ‘yes’. Let’s make yes.

Oh and let’s not stop there because thennnnnn…in another poem he wrote...’the blue slender hands of god’ and now I am determined to find those hands and photograph them. So, if anyone out there has ‘blue slender hands of god’ please please do contact me so I can capture them in a sublime photo.

a few of my favorite things this week….

the gleam, fleck and swoop of seabirds drawing skycircles
jazz and poetry and summer thunder
golden rain and the silver moon
jade nailpolish
blood orange lemonade
petals and ribbons and roadtrips
all shiny things including the exquisite stars
leaping greenly
yam fries with chipotle spice
my holy curiosity
seaglass and feathers, shells and beach pebbles
bees
the sexy perfumed scent of my garden swooning into bloom
hovering butterflies and ladybugs
singing, smiling, laughing and especially church bells
the beautiful sketch my dear friend Celeste createdfor me
morning coffee
roses les bluets (just because they sound lovely)
chimney’s and tulips and chocolate
aaaaaaaaaaaaand…
Sunday’s (always, because they are perfect)

I am just filled to bursting as well as my beautiful friend Lizzie just gave birth to a gorgeous baby girl so a big BIG shout out of joy and love for Lizzie. I am hoping she will bring the little beauty to her ‘reveal’ retreat I am teaching at this fall:)

More ‘conversations’ are perculating away and will be unveiled in the next few weeks ~

happy weekend everyone!