Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 22 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… In the sand beside the snake, the bone-bleached feathers shift. They scratch at the sand and sigh. They whisper. They hold a piece of the desert’s wind,…
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is leaning heavily into the woodland look, which means: See more pretty green-and-green in my lovely spurge, which is so obligingly vibrant and bright from shady bits of my front garden. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years gives some very insistent hints that my bright-orange rose, Austrian Copper, should be blooming soon, so there’s more than green to look forward to. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows more…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 21 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Can you hear those echoes still?” Black-fire shakes the ice from her fur as her only means of shouting in this enforced near-silence. “Can you follow the…
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is pretty. Not a very exciting statement, but it’s at the point of the season where I like to just wander around in it and look at the pretty (including my pigsqeak looking all happy pink and bright!). So, I think it’s really nice. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests my earliest roses – Austen Copper 🙂 – might be showing up soon. Though, it should be noted the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 20 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Soft hiss and crack now as the great bone beneath the scouts’ claws releases them from the other place, and the velvet void is soft again and…
Okay. So. I’d really like to write a blog post on something to do with writing and/or my stories. But it seems…like it would be inappropriate at this particular juncture? I’ve got nothing published so far, except for half of my first Serial-Steam-of-Consciousness Story (SSCS; on this blog). And realistically it’s going to be years before any of my work is noticeably more available than that. (Okay, to be perfectly accurate: In high school, 2 or 3 of my poems…
See Previous | See Next This week is the season of petals all over the car! So much rain (yay!) and the lilacs and flowering chokecherry are looking lush and lovely. And my earliest irises are blooming. So pretty and sweet! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years definitely supports this as the season of lilacs. (Though I’m sad more of my early irises don’t seem interested in flowering this year, as were hinted at from last year.) Looking back…
I just caught the baby bunny who lives near my back patio delicately eating fallen flower petals.
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 19 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Instead it is the honey that answers. “You may have it,” the dry honey-cracks whisper, the wet honey-veins slurp, “if you can refuse to sing.” And in…
See Previous | See Next It’s tulips-and-apple-blossoms season and my garden is glowing! It’s always so gratifying when the Just-plants-lots-of-tulips-and-keeps-planting-tulips strategy pays off, as it definitely has this year. Last year was nope for tulips, but this year they’re back. Yay! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a good reminder that spring color really does show up pretty suddenly, but will hopefully keep going for a few more weeks, with other flowers too, before we hit a lull….