How does the writer's brain work? It is a bewilderment to me, why it must be this particular word, or that particular image. How is it that now, in this time of several national and global crises, I emerge from sleep holding to this juxtaposition:
i wake
my face is wet
the blue heron stands
one foot
on a slate roof
???
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SEASONS #2: Palettes #2
For an art journal challenge at The Lilypad. The template is from Scrapping With Liz. Elements from Anna Aspnes, Jen Maddocks, Just Jaimee, Rebecca McMeen, and Michelle Godin. The fonts are An Unfortunate Event, Air Conditioner, A Little Pot, and Baffled. The small poems are mine.
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GRASSHOPPER
For Take A Word: a touch of purple. Elements from Courtney’s Designs and Created by Jill. The font is Hobbes. The small poem is mine.
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[ I remind myself:
Prompt: shelter
crows
collecting twigs
from the budding maple
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NaHaiWriMo is providing prompts for National Haiku Writing Month on Facebook. I'm posting mine on Twitter, and will do a weekly roundup here at Watermark. The first week's prompts were all on the theme of food:
this tuna casserole | delivered to my door by volunteers | tastes like childhood
that winter henhouse smell | the chickens' arguments | sharper than mine
cheese knife | if only we | could part so cleanly
why does no one say | *eat your ice cream* | Lettuce & Turnips & Beets, Oh My!
a bowl of rice | a cup of tea | and you
old cowboy milking | perfect aim | cats' open mouths
& an extra:
spilled milk | cat happy to help
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[UPDATE: I've been asked to post the text from my Life Lessons page; I'm putting it under the cut.]
... what I've been doing. While I've not been blogging. While I've not been writing.
Yesterday & Today, the scrapbooking class I've been taking from Ali Edwards, is winding down. This is the last week.
The most difficult assignment for me was this one – to take a picture of myself every day for a week, and do a layout using my own handwriting:
Template from Ali Edwards
Papers from onelittlebird, Shabby Princess, Reflective Scrapbooking, Honey Designs, Karla Dudley, Vera Lim.
Brads from Basic Grey, Anna Aspnes, Karla Dudley.
The "journaling" reads:
This week has been hedged in grief – my own, and all of Japan's. It felt odd to be smiling into mirrors during this time.
I have been reminded that pretending to be happier than I am works sometimes, if only briefly.
Looking at these images, I think: This woman looks familiar. I rarely see her. Does she resemble me? Do I know her?
17 March 02011 ~SB
This assignment was the most fun, to record my "life lessons":
Template from Ali Edwards
Paper from Anna Aspnes
And this one is where I began to feel that I can do something with this, beyond "scrapbooking":
Template from Ali Edwards
Papers from Anna Aspnes, except for the lower right, which is from Ali Edwards.
From here, I have moved on to something else. More later.
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