Home Sweet Ham #3

Just a construct.

Home Sweet Ham #2

Entering Class I

decide

Someone else’s dreams,

or your own.

All that’s left is to decide.

🐦

“Effie…I will not be pigeon-holed.”

Sometimes I like to imagine birds having conversations.

Especially pigeons. These were far off, but body language still talks.

3 Variants

I recognize I am air in varied states of holding and letting go. At times, too much is contained which forces the release. Other times I am light and free, invisible, having let go of the weight. Often, as is today, I am holding things, unable to rest, unable to release, a mist seen but not felt. The idea is there, but it is both too much and too little to transcend.

the good juice

the good juice is realizing it’s ok to be a part of a thing, and not the entire thing.

a single entire thing, is a lonely thing. but a thing made up of millions of parts

that’s where the magic lies.

—streams of consciousness while editing photos, listening to Coltrane 😆

G.O.A.T. #1

Privacy Please.

A less than a week old goat hides from unwanted visitors in Prospect, TN, November 2024.

a point of view

Perspective from the lens of a tourist in British Columbia.

a living

The heart needs another outlet,

but it can’t pour everything out to every thing.

Necessary is space for the business of this existence,

one wants a life, but needs a living.

CYH No.4

…Fallen pines to shape the skyline
Take me there
Beneath the barren colored moon

Quit all that looking back
I quit all of that..

- Gregory Alan Isakov, Berth

Winter Morning

Softly, softly.

your mind, ready

“What is one to do with such moments, such memories, but cherish them? Who knows what is beyond the known? And if you think that any day the secret of light might come, would you not keep the house of your mind ready? Would you not cleanse your study of all that is cheap, or trivial? Would you not live in continual hope, and pleasure, and excitement?”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours

🕸️

Webs on a trail in Washington State

illusionary

Feels like you’ve been here before,

illusionary doors,

unsettled stagnant scores.

the gateway

the feeling that you might end up somewhere else entirely,

depending on where you step,

to veer off trail is to find yourself losing yourself,

which, depending on who you ask,

can be lovely

or alarming.

resolve

There are some very large letting goes to do:

people, places, honeyed and battered phases of life

there are some even larger letting goes to do:

anger, tears, parts of yourself that leave with no return.

have a past.

Everything that’s happened cannot be held today- Cleo Wade

Hope

Above all else.

May love and hope, which is our natural state,

be what we return home to.

the midst

Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.

~Unknown

6:45am

Sleepless, but with a silver lining.