Sanctuary no more
There is a disaster happening in my back yard. What has been my sanctuary for the last decade or so has become a kind of apocalyptic scene. Construction was begun – walls were ripped down, a deep...
View ArticleNight Ride
Biking home late from work, a route different from my usual as I’d stopped to pick up another drawing pad, some conté, a few more colours of paint, and launching off with bags dangling from the...
View ArticleSunshine
Saturday’s sinking melancholy feeling wanted to stick around for a few days. But there was a fragment of something I’d seen recently about despair being the worst sin, the greatest sin of all, and the...
View ArticleGood morning
My morning ritual has gotten more and more elaborate over the years. It begins hors champ, out of frame, in my bed with scribbles in a dream journal à la Robert Moss – you can’t move too much or the...
View ArticleStrange Teachers
For several nights now I’ve dreamt of a temple of death. Apropos for the Halloween / Day of the Dead season I suppose – the skulls and skeletons are everywhere, sticking up out of the ground, in and...
View ArticleUnexpected Angels
Last weekend I saw a Medicine Woman / healer. A friend in Owen Sound had called me up and insisted I needed to come see this super-talented, up-and-coming, currently bargain-basement healer from the...
View ArticleNew Year Beginning
There was a new moon on the first day of a new year. We lit a fire.We set intentions, scrawling them secretly, folding them carefully into small squares of paper in the middle of an elaborate...
View ArticleDream paraphernalia
Last night I was telling my son about the dream of the house where nothing was what it seemed, everything shifting, slippery, treacherous and untenable. We stood under the overhead lights in the...
View ArticleSummer Love – The Fool in the Land of Woo
Early in the dark of the morning the air is cool from the night rains. A mourning dove coos softly. The cat plays amongst the wet leaves. Across the courtyard a teenager coming home from the night...
View ArticleTurtle textures
Image: Raina Gentry The most delicious underwater dream of the clearest, cleanest water, following a turtle as she swam ahead of me. The light glowed underneath the water, glimmering on rocks and...
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