For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet




Put down that bag of potato chips, that white bread, that bottle of pop.

Turn off that cellphone, computer, and...

Mornings In Confinement

Here’s what I want to write:
That confinement has made me
A better person, been a gift
Allowed for consideration,
Commitment to quiet
Contemplation and revelation
...

A Home

Where I live
the smoke will arrive
again, half million
heartbeats skip in unison
rising into a warm autumn wind
we will keep watch
knowing well what we can
and cannot do to help

Who would have thought that grocery shopping would become so difficult.

Here is an antidote to the video posted by Barry.Don’t panic about shopping, getting delivery or accepting packages


...

Listening

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In the dark
pre-dawn mornings,
I listen to the trees.
Sometimes I hear nothing,
but feel their reassuring presence.
Sometimes words sail

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Yeah, saw this. Makes me want to go on a fast!!! Thanks though. Lilith

I understand the frustration and anger. The situation is unpleasant, smelly, and dangerous, among many other things. It's also a false dichotomy to draw between the encampment "occupants" and...

Surely Stuart is feeling concerned and possibly angry, as are many of us, at the situation that Santa Rosa (and thousands of other municipalities across the Country) is having to deal with....

Yeah, love it!! Great ideas and cool poem.

Give everyone a big hug and a warm smile for Christmas!!

And for Halloween and Thanksgiving, too.

Love, Lilith

And cut back on the crap!!

Despite his persistent lies that "Jyna" is paying the U.S. "billions" due to his self-imposed trade war, trump announced that he was delaying some new tariffs to avoid impacting the upcoming...

Sebastopol 10-cent single use coffee cup tax proposal

Currently, most coffee shops offer a 10-cent discount when you bring your own cup. Under this proposal, customers will be charged 10-cents...

The turkeys we see are actually a domestic offshoot of the original wild turkeys. Turkeys were first domesticated by native people before europeans arrived. These turkeys were imported and released...

I think it's sweet how everyone is so concerned about this, but my advice is to leave it alone and let nature take it's course. They are not an endangered species, and this turkey probably knows what...

Turkeys are native to Eastern North America, but not California. There are a LOT of turkeys living in the Sebastopol area. When I first saw this one, she had a companion. They, and now she by...

What We Packed at 3 A.M.


The dog
the drugs

The cash
the cards

The elder neighbors who couldn’t drive

When Fire Swept West

When fire swept west in Annadel Park
there appeared no stopping it
from descending to devour our street and house
and when it halted, we wept
with gratitude then went...

The Curator

We thought it would come, we thought the Germans would come,
were almost certain they would. I was thirty-two,
the youngest assistant curator in the country.
I had some good...

45 Years of My Words Away

So how do I write about something
that took 45 years of my words & art away?

Journals, articles, poems, drawings, paintings, manuscripts,
travel sketches, a library...

Obituary

Tim Hicks died expectedly at some moment in the future
not yet determined but certain.
He died at the center of the universe
surrounded by everyone and everything.
He died as he...

Before The Election

I am trying to recall those
Hope filled times when the lilacs
Knew exactly when to blossom
And the figs always produced
In the same months
I count on those like my...

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18th Annual Reforestation Project

Start the New Year by planting trees on rural Sonoma land.

This January, Forest...

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Hello. . . and blessing to everyone...

The following is my incomplete list of amazing, mostly unique and non-commercial local community treasures. I'm sure you will have your own favorites. Deep gratitude to all of them for helping to...