fun with archaic words can old words become new again? Sometimes, words just disappear from the language. For some reason that’s unknown to me, people just stop using these words. When they were used, all of the now-archaic words had meaning and were used very appropriately. Over the passage of years, the words were forgotten […]

A sedoka is a Japanese poetic form. It is based on the number of syllables in each line, and there is no need to rhyme. This is how Poetrysoup.com describes a sedoka: “Sedoka is a Japanese verse form that evolved from ancient songs. They can be mood poems, similar to tanka, or they can tell

and recollections “Tree are a poem the earth writes across the sky. Humanity cuts them down for paper so we may record our emptiness.”   – Kahlil Gibran Happy Earth Day! This is a great day to celebrate the our beautiful blue home, Earth. I really look forward to this day every year because it’s the

in silhouette #wordlesswednesday

Alice attempts a very small mandala The purpose of today’s post is to show one use of pencils to create a design. I chose to use a pad of charcoal paper. The paper was very small, and, as it turns out, probably too small for my project. At some point, I’m planning on redoing this

year round! I do love to walk outside at this time of year and to see spring beginning to unfold. And, of course, I bring my camera and take a plethora of nature photographs. Unfortunately, today is not one of those days. I’m looking out my window and am seeing some sort of precipitation coming

of three faith traditions… “The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.” Kate McGahan There was a rare event that occurred, so unusual that it only happens once every 33 years. That event was the convergence of (western) Easter, Passover, and Ramadan. The Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate Easter

to decorating cookies… “Cookies are made with butter and love.” — Norwegian proverb When you go to a bakery, you’re going to see lots and lots of decorated cutout cookies. And, sure enough, they all look alike! But… is it necessary to decorate all of your cookies so that they are clones of each other?

images of me

lucky losers listen longingly… Late on a long day, I look at a mixed media picture that I made a few days ago. I started off with a shape and I let the image grow until it turned into something. It became something unplanned and different than the original image that I had in mind.