This girls art: Planning for the new year

Monday, December 15, 2008

Planning for the new year

I haven't been able to get to motivated. I have to start thinking about changes I'm going to make AFTER the new year. More exercise please. Swimming maybe or walking more. Getting a good pair of shoes for walking in this cold weather. Plan a trip for 2009. We need a adventure. We are thinking of seeing Machu Picchu in peru. That can be my incentive for walking more and the exercise. because the hike up machu picchu is 26 miles straight up to the clouds.

2 comments:

Mari Meehan said...: Better include some deep breathing exercises too.. those clouds are a tad higher than Iowa! Lol.; December 15, 2008 at 2:47 PM
A Wild Thing said...: I just watched a program on the site, that is just the perfect place for you to seek your inner power, many have found it there. I would love to see it too, plus the Stonehenge...must wait till te lottery hits (I don't even play) but that's what it'll take.

Sorry I missed ya at Sisters', gonna try and get up this Friday, if I do, weather permitting, I will drop off that shadow box...see ya...; December 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM

Surface Hunting by Claudia Emerson

You always washed artifacts
at the sink, your back
to the room, to me, to the mud
you tracked in from whatever
neighbors's field had just been plowed.
Spearpoints, birdpoints, awls and leaf
shaped blades surfaced from the turned earth
as though from beneath some thicker
water you tried to see into.
You never tired, you told me, of the tangible
past you could admire, turn over
and over in your hand-the first
to touch it since the dead one that had
worked the stone. You linedbookshelves
and end tables with them; obsidian,
quarts, flint, they measured the hours you'd spent
with your head down, searching for others,
and also the prized hours of my own
solitude-collected, prized,
saved alongside those artifacts
that had been for so long lost.

any person with partner whose passion is arrowhead hunting, knows the meaning of this poem.