This cardboard boxis filled with very important people from our childhood. It houses the voices and magic of make believe worlds found in bedtime stories we heard night after night. From Tom Sawyer the mischievous hooky playing; wanna be pirate. To Huckleberry Finn's vagabond, heroes state of a carefree existence. And Peter Pan's devil-may-care infinite … Continue reading MOVING DAY
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A Saturation of Saturnian Characters
"Saturn is actually the biggest ruler breaker of all. This is because its rules do not attempt to serve power. Rather, it tries to define reality despite power." -Alice Sparkly Kat For some, it has been so challenging to find ourselves. Because there is no representation. It is hard to find role models who are … Continue reading A Saturation of Saturnian Characters
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things
This is the poet, Mary Oliver's, take, on what those three things are. In Blackwater Woods Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, … Continue reading To live in this world, you must be able to do three things
Inspiration: “Let Birds Fly”
Here is the full text of Pemberton poet, Trish Belsham's award-winning poem, Let Birds Fly. LET BIRDS FLY Skirt hem scraping dips and folds into The rough wooden floorboards Open spacious barn, I circle palm In hand to his velvet touch Starlings swoop and scream high in the hole To sky, where the roof peaks, … Continue reading Inspiration: “Let Birds Fly”