This is the weekend I meet my 2 sisters in NC and we head to my Mom's small hometown to spread her ashes around her headstone. We are planting daffodils I have yet to dig out of my back yard. And I bought some Iris bulbs to plant. Guess we'll have to plant them close to her headstone so they don't get mowed over by the groundskeepers.
My older sister feels like this should just be us girls, since the memorial service brought friends and family together to remember her life. I'm of two minds. I feel that we should warn my Mom's closest friend in her hometown to let her know we are coming rather than just calling her out of the blue, so she can make plans. And two days notice is better than day of notice, right?
Anyway, my Mom missed 23 years of North Carolina springs while living in the Alaskan Bush. It's appropriate that we embrace spring for her this year.
Miss you Mom.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Go West, young woman
So, I fly to the west coast tomorrow. I still have to shove my clothes in my bag, confirm my flight, decide how I'm getting to the airport and if I'm gonna call in a favor to get there. Or if I'll leave my car in long-term parking & pay the fee.
But my car needs to be seen by the body-work guys who worked on it last year, to see if they can find the intermittent leak which occurs when it's raining like hell or when I go through the car wash. And it would be nice not to have it looked at while I actually need it to run around in.
Anyway. I'm going to a poetry workshop offered by Diane Frank of Blue Light Press in San Francisco. And I'm visiting an Aunt for two days. I haven't seen her in about 10 years, since the last time she came out to visit her Aunt with my Dad, who was living with her then. I think. Then I'm sharing a hotel room with a view of the Pacific Ocean with two other poets in the workshop from Friday night til Monday. I'm not sure if I'm going back to my Aunt's house or not after that. I may try to extend my trip for a day or two, since I was an idiot and booked a red-eye for myself on the way back Tuesday night. That way I'll be sure to catch up with an acquaintance I know from Greensboro. Since it took me three days to recover from the last red-eye I flew on, last fall, that might be the smart thing to do. Oh, how soon we forget what a pain in the butt red-eyes can be.
I need to run off some more poems, like pretty much all of a chapbook I've been writing on for the last year. It may be book length by the time I'm finished with the series. She said to bring poems of a project we've been working on. And that is a long-term project I have been working on.
I'll keep you updated!
But my car needs to be seen by the body-work guys who worked on it last year, to see if they can find the intermittent leak which occurs when it's raining like hell or when I go through the car wash. And it would be nice not to have it looked at while I actually need it to run around in.
Anyway. I'm going to a poetry workshop offered by Diane Frank of Blue Light Press in San Francisco. And I'm visiting an Aunt for two days. I haven't seen her in about 10 years, since the last time she came out to visit her Aunt with my Dad, who was living with her then. I think. Then I'm sharing a hotel room with a view of the Pacific Ocean with two other poets in the workshop from Friday night til Monday. I'm not sure if I'm going back to my Aunt's house or not after that. I may try to extend my trip for a day or two, since I was an idiot and booked a red-eye for myself on the way back Tuesday night. That way I'll be sure to catch up with an acquaintance I know from Greensboro. Since it took me three days to recover from the last red-eye I flew on, last fall, that might be the smart thing to do. Oh, how soon we forget what a pain in the butt red-eyes can be.
I need to run off some more poems, like pretty much all of a chapbook I've been writing on for the last year. It may be book length by the time I'm finished with the series. She said to bring poems of a project we've been working on. And that is a long-term project I have been working on.
I'll keep you updated!
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Hmm, I seem to be neglecting myself
It's been a busy three or so weeks. Sorry for the silence on my end. I'm not sure why I keep ignoring my blog. It's not made itself into a bi-or tri-weekly habit yet, I guess.
And I've been juggling a lot of things, primarily traveling this last month: Balticon46 over Memorial Day weekend (more on that to come, I promise!). Then I drove to a karate/grappling seminar in my old dojo in Greensboro, NC (more on that, too!) with an extension to my Mom's house for a quick and dirty, but uneventful, girl's weekend with my sister's and my Mom (also a four day trip -- Thur through Sun). Then my older sister & B-I-L came up the next Thurs so we could go see the Hokusai print exhibit before it left the Sackler Gallery in D.C.. And this weekend, the S.O. and I are in Williamsburg at the annual Virginia Dental Meeting. Four weekends of travel, strange beds &/or guests (sorry Lisa & John, but y'all are strange :)
The Hokusai exhibit is almost indescribable. These are woodcut prints are from the1830s and are frelling beautiful. Especially the ones printed all in blue ink. If it comes to a gallery anywhere near your city, do not hesitate to go, & go more than once if you can. It's definitely worth the price of admission.
The Japanese Mezzotints exhibit is worth a peek, too, especially the lone copper plate showing the etching. It's warm copper tone blew the black and with print away, in my humble opinion. And my sister made sure I saw it. She knows what I tend to be drawn to, as she's seen enough of my photography and stolen, er, appropriated enough of her art/sculpture over the years. (I still want my turn with the Jhierry totems. Where the heck are they, BTW?)
More later, when I'm not getting ready for a dental CEU which prolly won't carry over to my massage therapy credits, not that I need anything but an ethics class to renew this year. August will surprise the heck out of me, so I'd better get to reading that ethics book I borrowed from Kristen.
And I've been juggling a lot of things, primarily traveling this last month: Balticon46 over Memorial Day weekend (more on that to come, I promise!). Then I drove to a karate/grappling seminar in my old dojo in Greensboro, NC (more on that, too!) with an extension to my Mom's house for a quick and dirty, but uneventful, girl's weekend with my sister's and my Mom (also a four day trip -- Thur through Sun). Then my older sister & B-I-L came up the next Thurs so we could go see the Hokusai print exhibit before it left the Sackler Gallery in D.C.. And this weekend, the S.O. and I are in Williamsburg at the annual Virginia Dental Meeting. Four weekends of travel, strange beds &/or guests (sorry Lisa & John, but y'all are strange :)
The Hokusai exhibit is almost indescribable. These are woodcut prints are from the1830s and are frelling beautiful. Especially the ones printed all in blue ink. If it comes to a gallery anywhere near your city, do not hesitate to go, & go more than once if you can. It's definitely worth the price of admission.
The Japanese Mezzotints exhibit is worth a peek, too, especially the lone copper plate showing the etching. It's warm copper tone blew the black and with print away, in my humble opinion. And my sister made sure I saw it. She knows what I tend to be drawn to, as she's seen enough of my photography and stolen, er, appropriated enough of her art/sculpture over the years. (I still want my turn with the Jhierry totems. Where the heck are they, BTW?)
More later, when I'm not getting ready for a dental CEU which prolly won't carry over to my massage therapy credits, not that I need anything but an ethics class to renew this year. August will surprise the heck out of me, so I'd better get to reading that ethics book I borrowed from Kristen.
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