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ng new into the world be well posted by denise at 11 28 am 0 comments labels poetry stories thursday march 11 2021 what will it be after hill 88 2021 how has close to an entire year passed since i ve been here so much has changed yet many things remain the same at their core including me our country has new leadership there are now multiple vaccines to help wind down this pandemic and my hair is longer than it has ever been yet the sun still rises and sets each day the moon continues to move through its phases and the same tree in front of my living area window dapples my light my life is old and new just when i believe wisdom is settling in i discover something life changing that was within my reach for years but i missed and i feel grateful and humbled i m reminded there will always be more more to appreciate more to learn i hear a robin nearby belting out a tune bold and beautiful is it a call to do something big today what will it be posted by denise at 8 55 am 2 comments labels domestic stories thoughts thursday march 26 2020 would you like someone to read to you hello hello is anyone still out there anyone who isn t already communicating with me on instagram if so hi there it s nice to see you again i haven t been here in so long typing on this screen feels as if i ve traveled back in time which might not be such a bad thing considering we re in the middle of a pandemic the pandemic is actually what made me think of this space i wanted to let you know that i started recording myself reading after the sour lemon moon aloud my intention is to offer a space away from the stress so many of us are feeling about the current situation we are all in part one and part two are currently in my regular instagram posts part three is coming soon i also contributed to a point reyes books project called quarantine poems you can watch a video of a poem being read to you each day on tuesday i read ada limón s poem oranges the ocean you can see it as well as the other quarantine poems by taking a look at point reyes books on instagram thank you for stopping by be safe be well posted by denise at 8 05 pm 0 comments labels poems stories thursday november 15 2018 after the sour lemon moon we re back in business after the sour lemon moon has a new printer if you d like a copy for yourself or to give as a gift you can visit call or order online from your favorite independent local bookstore after the sour lemon moon can also be found in the usual online haunts and as an ebook enjoy posted by denise at 2 43 pm 0 comments monday june 25 2018 letting go and holding on i ve been returning to annie dillard s essay living like weasels thanks chris i am particularly drawn to her last few paragraphs her reflections on letting go i would like to learn or remember how to live i come to hollins pond not so much to learn how to live as frankly to forget about it that is i don t think i can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular shall i suck warm blood hold my tail high walk with my footprints precisely over the prints of my hands but i might learn something of mindlessness something of the purity of living in the physical sense and the dignity of living without bias or motive and holding on i think it would be well and proper and obedient and pure to grasp your one necessity and not let it go to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you then even death where you re going no matter how you live cannot you part seize it and let it seize you up aloft even till your eyes burn out and drop let your musky flesh fall off in shreds and let your very bones unhinge and scatter loosened over fields over fields and woods lightly thoughtless from any height at all from as high as eagles if you haven t read living like weasels i highly recommend finding and reading the entire essay to see these excerpts in context and feel the full force of annie dillard s raw rugged inquisitive nature and if you have read it i suggest a return posted by denise at 12 37 pm 0 comments monday june 4 2018 spy of the first person impermanence 2018 i didn t even know it had been published it was a library find i don t think there s a better way to find a book than browsing i m still in the trance this book sam shepard s final work spy of the first person put me in i can only describe this book as what appears to be an honest documentation of a creative mind making its final transition from here to wherever it is we go when we leave this place although there is nothing about this slim book with its strange dreamlike text surrounded by ample white space that would classify it as a page turner it has a sense of urgency that once i d picked it up would not let me put it down it was much more like standing before shepard in his rocking chair on his front porch and hearing him speak his final words than what i was actually doing reading a book i was not at all surprised to learn patti smith assisted shepard in editing the manuscript i got to the hedge which was neither a camellia hedge or a hydrangea or anything like that it was unidentifiable there were white flowers coming out of it but i didn t quite know what they were i can make him out through the white flowers through the hedge but i wasn t quite sure i could make something out through there but i wasn t sure what oh never mind i ll figure it out later that s the thing about later you don t know what s coming up you don t know how all the loose ends are going to gather together something for sure is going to happen but you don t know what it is for instance i m outside for instance out here with the birds and the bugs not exactly outside but close enough just across the way it s never like it was the clouds the big sky the flowers the chirping i m now looking at everything i see through the lens of impermanence the back cover categorizes the book as fiction but it felt very real to me posted by denise at 9 07 am 3 comments labels stories thoughts wednesday march 28 2018 do you know about slow club book club selection 2 2018 if you haven t heard of slow club book club by literary north you might want to check it out it s the first book club i ve really wanted to join all i had to do was read their introduction and i was hooked did the frantic pace of 2017 drain the energy out of you are you looking for the calm quiet inside do you want to slowly enjoy a few good books with like minded sloths if so this is the book club for you just four books that will take us from january through december 2018 no commitments no shouting no rushing sound good subscribe and we ll send you the brief no hassle details slowly yours shari rebecca we begin reading our next selection april 1st no hurry obviously posted by denise at 5 08 pm 7 comments wednesday february 14 2018 wait for the light ranunculus 2018 i read pablo neruda s poem emerging this morning then i read it again then i had it read to me then i read it one more time i ll probably read it again later today this is the beginning of the poem a man says yes without knowing how to decide even what the question is and is caught up and then is carried along and never again escapes from his own cocoon and that s how we are forever falling into the deep well of other beings and one thread wraps itself around our necks another entwines a foot and then it is impossible impossible to move except in the well nobody can rescue us from other people but this is just an excerpt if you d like to find the rest of this poem and i think you should i m aware of a few options you can locate a copy of neruda s book of poems extravagaria and read it there if you subscribe to the paris review you can read this poem on their website if you prefer someone read it to you you are in luck you can listen to the paris review s podcast episode 11 also on their website no subscription necessary at the 01 22 mark and hear this poem in its entirety alternatively if you can track down a copy of their spring 1974 issue you ll find this poem in print enjoy posted by denise at 12 19 pm 4 comments labels poetry thursday january 18 2018 blood orange upside down cake before you read my recipe you should know that i rarely follow recipes there are exceptions of course but typically i look at a bunch of recipes and either combine them or select one and make a bunch of changes most of my inspiration for this cake came from this baking the goods recipe found during a google search while trying to find an old recipe i d once made i never found the old recipe but i was still very pleased with this cake there are just so many things to consider with recipes there s what you happen to have in your pantry and in your refrigerator there are your personal preferences there are the kitchen tools you own and do not own there is the heat of your oven your elevation your mood and on and on and on it s kind of a miracle that recipes ever work at all so since some pals on instagram asked i m just going to tell you how i made this cake this afternoon i ll try and remember as many details as possible you ll have to consider all of the items in the paragraph above and make changes where applicable here we go blood orange upside down cake 2 tablespoons miyoko s vegan butter 1 4 cup brown sugar 3 small blood oranges 1 1 2 cups all purpose flour 3 4 cup instant polenta 1 1 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 2 teaspoon fine salt crushed seeds from 10 green cardamom pods 1 2 cup raw sugar one 5 3 ounce container of vanilla soy yogurt 1 2 cup olive oil enough to grease a cake pan 1 teaspoon almond extract 3 tablespoons flax meal zest from your 3 small blood oranges grease cake pan and set aside put 3 tablespoons of of flax meal 9 tablespoons of water in a small bowl whisk together with a fork and set aside melt 2 tablespoons butter and pour into bottom of cake pan sprinkle brown sugar evenly over melted butter in cake pan zest all 3 oranges and set zest aside thinly slice oranges leaving peel intact and gently place enough slices over the butter and brown sugar to cover the bottom of the cake pan slice off the peels of the remaining orange slices rough chop and fill in the open spaces around the slices in the cake pan set extra chopped orange pieces aside crack open cardamom pods remove seeds and crush seeds in mortar with pestle preheat oven to 350 degrees in a medium bowl whisk together flour polenta baking powder cardamom and salt set aside in a second medium bowl combine raw sugar yogurt and 1 2 cup olive oil and whisk together until combined and smooth take flax meal and water you set aside earlier and whisk with fork one more time it should have thickened by now add all of it to wet ingredients along with almond extract and whisk again until combined and smooth add orange zest and any remaining chopped orange pieces to wet ingredients and gently stir to distribute evenly fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients adding only 1 3 of dry ingredients at a time fold each addition gently only folding until all dry ingredients are wet gently and evenly spoon the batter over the orange slices in the cake pan and carefully smooth out the top it needn t be perfect the top of the cake will eventually be the bottom of the cake my cake baked in only 25 minutes but my oven runs pretty hot what you re looking for is a light golden brown cake into which you can insert a sharp knife or toothpick into the center and have it come out clean maybe check it for the first time at 20 or 25 minutes and then go from there keeping an eye on it and testing it at 5 minute intervals remove the cake from the oven once the knife toothpick comes out clean and let it rest in the cake pan for 15 minutes run a knife around the edge of the pan place a plate on top of the cake pan and hold the cake pan and plate together with a thick folded dishtowel pot holders oven mitts the cake pan is probably still hot and invert it quickly the cake should release onto the plate mine did let the cake cool for a bit on the plate i think i waited about 10 or 15 minutes before taking my first slice that s it enjoy posted by denise at 6 00 pm 2 comments labels culinary domestic monday december 18 2017 there are stars 2017 i don t like writing about art visual art or film or poetry or prose really yet i ve done all of the above and have learned of great works by others who have done the same still what i find on my own is always what i favor most much of the magic is in the finding and then watching the formerly unknown film or painting or poem or novel as it opens up to me i ll return to the best work again and again if i can find it but i wonder if my returns are less about the great works themselves and more about attempting to reclaim the magic that was in my initial moment of discovery and how my first experience with the work changed me but can these things be separated isn t it all intertwined the work the discovery of the work the way the work changes the viewer doesn t it all combine and add another layer to each person who sees the work part of me wants to tell everyone i know to get to the seventh floor of sfmoma before january 1st when the exhibition that holds the work i discovered friday stayed with for over an hour and then returned to with someone special on saturday for closer to two hours and share this experience with me but i hesitate i know my telling will subtract something from all the work can be and i even worry that the someone special i introduced to the work on saturday was unable to feel what i felt on friday when i walked into a particular room on the seventh floor of the museum without a single preconceived notion and felt myself begin to change there are stars exploding around you and there is nothing nothing you can do lyrics in this work i reference such as the above are drawn from parts of ásdís sif gunnarsdóttir s poem feminine ways posted by denise at 9 40 am 4 comments labels poetry stories thoughts thursday december 7 2017 joan didion on the rock imagining alcatraz 2017 i moved to san francisco seventeen years ago yet i ve never visited alcatraz i haven t had the desire with the exception of contemplating seeing ai weiwei s artwork there missing that exhibition was probably a mistake yes it was a mistake i meant to go but then kept thinking later later then it was gone but the idea of boarding a crowded ferry and being part of a large group of tourists shown around the island by a guide nope not appealing not at all i ve been thinking about joan didion lately she never leaves my mind for very long i decided to dip back into slouching towards bethlehem the first thing i turned to was her 1967 essay rock of ages the place she describes and its three inhabitants is enticing in a strange fairy tale sort of way in her first paragraph she begins to describe her attraction to this former prison it is not an unpleasant place to be out there on alcatraz with only the flowers and the wind and a bell buoy moaning and the tide surging 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