You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful.

You don't need anyone to tell you who you are.

You are what you are.

Get out there and get peace,

think peace, and live peace and breathe peace,

and you'll get it as soon as you like.

- John Lennon

IMAGINE PEACE

Shedding

along with the trees...

letting go of the old to create

space for the new

sweeping into the dustpan: perfectionism, opinions of others, self-judgement, old wounds of grief and woe, french blue maryjanes because they never really fit anyway, 48 other pairs that my feet seldom travel in, 50 linen napkins because i prefer paper and small gatherings, the belief that my noisy neighbor is an asshole, that any one of us is less than innocent, vulnerable wonders of nature, that whatever is occurring shouldn't be, that miracles and magic are not common daily occurrences.....

birthday girl

I finally made it!

(It took me awhile to get here...)

Happy Blessed Day.

Autumn Equinox

Jupiter is also closer to the earth than at any other time since 1963.

Cosmic coincidences all happening simultaneously, on

this Harvest Moon!

Magic.

Joni & Johnny

Went for a ride in my Wayback machine this weekend.

Landed at a live performance of Joni Mitchell & Johnny Cash,

covering this fine Bob Dylan tune...

junk cars, a pet llama, & a runaway horse...

...are just a few of the interesting sights we saw last weekend,

while on a drive through the Utah outback. Over a high mountain pass behind the Wasatch mountains, we went - on through Indian Canyon to Duchesne, then down route 35 through the lush Tabby Valley.

We hadn't originally intended to make what became a 200 mile trek.

But each little town beckoned, and our curiosity led us further on...

Happy Birthday

Sir Thomas!

One becomes a knight at 40.

Hail to the day!

Libbie Linton

Saw Libbie Linton, a local Utah treasure, perform at a free concert in a little

hollow, not far from where I live, last night.

I am a big fan of her music.

Her debut album

(2009),

"Bird Wings in the Bleak",

has definitely been a music staple.

I particularly like

Dressing Up for Death

End Times

My family had an estate sale midsummer, and with summer coming to an end, it seems a good time to post these photos.

Saying goodbye, not only to a season, but to possessions, family property, an entire era -and sorting through the memories and emotions that get tangled up in the tangible.

Wish I had captured a photo of the old Story & Clark upright piano that I played (but mostly tortured) as a child, along with the rest of my siblings. I told a guy he could have it for a song. He said he really wanted to learn to play, so we ended up giving it to him for the mere promise of one. It was either that or catapulting it off a local mountain top.

Somewhere

over Hollywood...

a dear friend left this world, unexpectedly.

Hugh B. CrumDecember 4, 1951 - July 28, 2010

Your soul is as big as the sky.

photo credit: HBC 2/11/10

Pioneer Day

The 24th of July is a Utah holiday, honoring the Mormon pioneers, my ancestors. We went on a trek to a local mountaintop, Francis Peak, my mother Esther used to look up at from her living room window...

Learned that is was named after

a Mormon pioneer woman,

Esther Francis - who knew?

After enjoying a hike and the cool mountain air, we visited the old family home resting at the foot of this mountain , and harvested some apricots, in the tradition of the pioneers, and my dear mother Esther.