Monday, January 07, 2013
175 Of Them!
I enjoy it when others use the field for baseball or just to practice. Not so much for soccer or football practice. Some things are sacred. But each year I do enjoy the return of the geese. To the geese I always extend a hearty welcome.
Sometimes there are 30 to 40 that arrive. Other times there are in excess of 100. This weekend I thought the number exceptionally high and I began to count. They are really not hard to count because they will stand still for me for the most part Spread out over the field there were 175 that I counted. Now I may be off + or - 1 or 2 but I'd say no more. So for the sake of this reporting I will go with the 175 number and it established a new high count.
Thinking about the geese there are a couple of things right off that I like about them. For starters the fact that they return a couple of different period of time during the year. I like that they come back to where they know.
I also appreciate that when they are walking around they seem to be doing their own thing. The are individuals. But they also belong to a larger community. When they go and come it is together. And they will fly off in a beautiful formation once aloft... Their aerodynamics is something to behold.; and they know their leader. There is no bickering among them as to who is to lead. This may of course occur in private smoke filled rooms but they do not air their dirty laundry or do political backstabbing in plain view and I appreciate that about them.
They have blessed me with a return again this winter and for that I am thankful.
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Confession Tuesday - Tardy Edition
Dear Reader,
I'm late. Yes I'm starting this out nearly an hour into Wednesday. I confess that it had not occurred to me that it was Tuesday in spite of answering my wife's question as to what day it was esrlier in the eveving. It's like I knew without it ever really registering.
My mind has apparently been on break from reality. Reality is so overrated.
I confess that in the morning I will of course meet the sun with a different perspective but I confess I will not be s willing participant in this.
Even on holidays or other days off I don't generally find it easy to lose myself in the moment. I confess that I did tonight and I liked it.
Amen!
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Making The Artist's Way Commitment
The Artist's Way - Wikipedia
I understand that I am undertaking an intensive, guided encounter with my own creativity. I commit myself to the twelve week duration of the course.
I commit to weekly reading, daily morning pages, a weekly artist date, and the fulfillment of each week's tasks.
I further understand that this course will raise issues and emotions for me to deal with. I commit myself to excellent self-care, adequate sleep, diet, exercise and pampering for the duration of the course.
Michael A. Wells
January 1, 2013
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Hello 2013 - Can You Hear Me Now?
There is a undercurrent that is bubbling on a low simmer within me that wants to be something grander. I have felt it and maybe it's fear, or not knowing what to do next, of being too fractured in my thinking but there is something that has allowed me to go only so far that year that we are ending. Perhaps I want not supposed to go any further. Maybe I was supposed to find myself right were I am at the end of this year on a slow burn (knowing something different was ahead in my writing) and awaiting the next phase.
I spent another fall working with a poet on some things and again I found myself feeling growth in my work and again finding inspiration. As a coach and mentor this poet has a way of bringing about transformative awareness in where you are and helping you step out of that place and move ahead. I have to credit this low simmer as a part of that - telling me that what's cooking is something different and that I need to be ready to turn up the burner a bit and let new things happen.
So that is in this new horizon for 2013 is not in clear focus but I have some ideas. I've had ideas before and for one or more reasons this ideas have only gone so far. I've been experienced in finding one road block after another on paths here and there. 2012 has provided me with some successes for sure. I have a lot to be thankful for, but I'm not getting any younger and I've never felt that time was on my side. I do want to turn the burner up a bit and move ahead; I want to reach what is on that horizon and not feel like I'm swimming in an ocean after a point that never gets any closer.
HELLO 2013 - CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Mail Bag
Some days it's better to get no mail then the alternative if that's bills. Today was a really good day...
1. Copy of Poets & Writers magazine.
2. Check for work published.
3. Card from another poet.
4. Rumpus letter from author Elizabeth Crane.
Not a single bill!
- Happy poet
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
Poetry Mentions Around the Internet
Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami’s crime consisted of reciting on November 16, 2011 a poem extolling the courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia - Sign Poets petition here