Trying to exorcise last night’s nightmare by poetry.
Dream Tanka
We played in sunshine,
but shadowed by foreboding.
Then the breezes died.
Then the birds stopped their singing.
Then the sun fell from the sky.
Gratitude List: 1. Starting online classes. Getting my teaching certification back to active.
2. Spinach and egg pie
3. Talking to Mara on the phone today
4. A four-egg day. In a three-hen flock, someone is over-achieving.
5. The Goldfinch Farm Crew. It begins.
Gratitude List: 1. My dear friend Carol told me today that Bhutan calculates the GNP of Happiness. I thought she was being poetic. She told me she was serious, and I looked it up. Bhutan monitors its GNH: Gross National Happiness. This gives me intense satisfaction.
2. Here’s the link to my interview with Carla Christopher, York’s Poet Laureate and all-around amazing person. It was such an incredible honor. I could have taken up the whole hour just to keep talking with her, thinking out loud about poetry together. My part is near the beginning, just after Carla’s own amazing poem, but don’t stop there. There are other really great poets and artists and musicians coming up after.
3. We are ready. Tomorrow morning the curtain will rise on season 2013 at Goldfinch Farm CSA, and we are ready to go.
4. Picking strawberries in the rain. Really. It was a blast, and the crew is such fun, and you have to eat the seconds as you go until you get a stomach ache, but you can’t stop eating strawberries because the season is so short, and you have to stock up on strawberry goodness for another whole year.
5. Finding myself at home in my own heart.
Mockingbird Chronicles 