This week en el ranchito kept busy moving forward with positivity, health, sun & amor. Plus dogs. Check out next beautiful reading for healing, meditation, prayers, progressive alliances and demonstrative of human resiliency.
Continue readingMy visual work (paintings and drawings), much like my poetry are much like a diary or journal keeping. They represent things I’ve seen, reflected upon or have concerns about. They aren’t attempts at exact representation but a peek into the artist-poet’s heart.
Continue readingAlthough I’m back to full throttle to writing, drawings have remained in my life as almost a daily activity.
Continue readingThe storm comes and goes, returns. Next time, harder. We don’t even bother
with shelters. We give it new names, each time, further fire and rain.
We mourn.
We start again. It could have been you or me, we say, dying
in public beneath a baton’s blows falling amidst a spray of a sniper’s bullets,
but it wasn’t. We go on.
Disaster has happened to someone else.
–(excerpt) A STORM UPON US
To all of you, blessings to your homes in the seasons to follow, that you may all have places to rest your heads, food enough to eat and store for the winter and a storage of words to pull out in the dark long nights of winter and weave blankets of poetry to warm the world during the long nights of winter.
Continue readingfrom Luanne Smith: If we end up using your suggestion…we’ll credit you…and I’ll personally send you $100 bucks.
Continue readingI may be considered ‘old school’ by today’s standards and criteria but I believe in valuing my allies, even the imperfect and conflicted human beings involved in many of the same struggles.
Continue readingThe ink on agreements is still wet on the following but I’m so looking forward to getting out here is advance notice. I do hope you’ll mask up & join us if possible.
Continue readingWhile Omicron hit our household as it did with countless others over the holidays it isn’t the lead story in this writer’s life as we enter 2022.
Continue reading“… I’m sent back by the gods, who say ‘not so fast, you’ve got some more work to do.’ Instead of going on to paradise forever, I’m returned to a sea shore, to my family who is waiting for me. The book offers some hope, some consolation, after our journey through the many hells that we have been through.”
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