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synch ro ni zing skip to main skip to sidebar alskuefhaih asoiefh tuesday august 14 2012 washed stones a new space to write i will not be reopening synch ro ni zing i am happy with this blog and would not change a thing it has been rich here interacting with friends how i ve loved the expanse of it all i still need to write and in an open forum but i ve changed and i want a quieter and more sequestered space i picture a monastic retreat with a narrow bed a desk and a window and all the outdoors beyond so i am emerging from hibernation into a spare small room called washed stones inspired by a poem of rilke s titled not poor see my bold in the poem not poor we are not poor we are just without riches we who have no will no world marked with the marks of the latest anxiety disfigured stripped of leaves around us swirls the dust of the cities the garbage clings to us we are shunned as if contaminated thrown away like broken pots like bones like last year s calendar and yet if our earth needed to she could weave us together like roses and make of us a garland for each being is cleaner than washed stones and endlessly yours and like an animal who knows already in its first blind moments its need for one thing only to let ourselves be poor like that as we truly are rainer maria rilke the book of hours iii 16 translated by anita barrows joanna macy i would love for you to join me if you like i warn you i may be very quiet you might not even hear me speak but you ll hear me scribbling because something in my poor washed being wants to be read like a stone more about the poem at my first post at washed stones posted by ruth at 5 29 am 8 comments wednesday july 18 2012 guest post at vision and verb on becoming a gramma james 6 months ago at about 12 hours old today i am sneaking out of hibernation to write a guest post at the lovely vision and verb a global gathering of women of this age my sister ginnie a collaborator at v v and at her own photoblog heart soul and blog in soul asked me to write about being a gramma i am honored to join the women who write there but what a challenge it is to gather in my feelings and set them down well here goes oh and he is 6 months old today get everything finished beforehand because it will be some time before you get anything important done again keep reading posted by ruth at 12 30 am 24 comments labels being a gramma ginnie james vision and verb thursday june 28 2012 farewell purple carrot flowers on the farm with some sadness i am putting my blog to sleep i d like to think of synch ro ni zing going into hibernation rather than permanent sleep but who knows most hibernating animals go into the long sleep in winter but i m choosing the hottest day of the year in michigan to tuck this little bird into its nest i guess birds don t hibernate do they i ve been at this six and a half years in the best time of my life i ve practiced writing and photography and i ve made friends with extraordinary people all is well with me and my family my grandson is a growing joy our son will be married in august and life is very good i am simply feeling creative energy flowing elsewhere i may post photos from the wedding here as i did from lesley s in any case i ll keep in touch i ve started several blogs as my oldest friends know i reserve the right to start another which i may do when i begin arranging flowers for the new restaurant of dear friends when it opens nina and tony run the purple carrot food truck which has the best food in town bar none they will open the red haven restaurant in late august in the meantime you can find me on instagram the photo sharing app for iphones and android phones my name there is ruthie822 a few nights ago we watched the 2011 version of jane eyre and loved it mia wasikowska is my favorite jane to date i didn t realize then that i would be saying goodbye to synch ro ni zing so soon or use a quote from charlotte brontë s novel to say it then you and i should bid good bye for a little while i suppose so sir and how do people perform that ceremony of parting jane teach me i m not quite up to it they say farewell or any other form they prefer then say it farewell mr rochester for the present what must i say the same if you like sir farewell miss eyre for the present is that all yes it seems stingy to my notions and dry and unfriendly i should like something else a little addition to the rite if one shook hands for instance but no that would not content me either so you ll do nothing more than say farewell jane it is enough sir as much good will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many very likely but it is blank and cool farewell it is blank and cool and i d rather get a hug from you posted by ruth at 3 07 am 106 comments labels instagram friday june 22 2012 june bug diane wakoski preparing to read poetry at the scarab club in michigan in june we see lots of june beetles banging against lighted window screens and we also see them dead on the sidewalk like pieces of broken brown bottles i went inside one very alive beetle this week once a golden scarab that could have been the paris of the midwest detroit is of course now littered with crumbling empty buildings and brownfields photographed and even relished the world over for its urban decay porn but there are jewels in the city that are protected and showcased by loving enthusiasts james and kim hosted a poetry reading wednesday by diane wakoski in the heart of detroit s cultural center at the scarab club across from the detroit institute of arts where diego rivera s famous detroit industry murals glow when i walked into the club with diane robert and heather the space lit by the towering garden window opened me up like a beetle flying to light paintings by students from the art school lesley attended backdropped diane s reading of her poems about movies afterward some of us had dinner at the union street cafe on woodward ave listening to james and kim talk about the club i realized once again how little i know about the detroit scene it is alive thanks to the people who believe in its heart and culture here is a poem by diane that conjures elements of summer and detroit for me i have these episodes of inspiration to get inside detroit and then i get distracted by my university and country life a couple of hours away inside out by diane wakoski i walk the purple carpet into your eye carrying the silver butter server but a truck rumbles by leaving its black tire prints on my foot and old images the sound of banging screen doors on hot afternoons and a fly buzzing over the kool aid spilled on the sink flicker as reflections on the metal surface come in you said inside your paintings inside the blood factory inside the old songs that line your hands inside eyes that change like a snowflake every second inside spinach leaves holding that one piece of gravel inside the whiskers of a cat inside your old hat and most of all inside your mouth where you grind the pigments with your teeth painting with a broken bottle on the floor and painting with an ostrich feather on the moon that rolls out of my mouth you cannot let me walk inside you too long inside the veins where my small feet touch bottom you must reach inside and pull me like a silver bullet from your arm posted by ruth at 6 39 am 31 comments labels art and design culture detroit diane wakoski instagram poetry older posts home subscribe to posts atom slow down to the pace of the soul says inge labels 9 11 abbey lincoln abundance advertising aging alexander technique all souls day angels anger animals ann arbor ara ars poetica art and design art institute of chicago article atelier audubon aunt edith autumn baby poppy seed bach backlit barn bbc tv beal gardens beauty being a gramma bennett bill evans birds birthdays bishop blizzard blog anniversary blog awards blog friends blog of note blog visit blogs book project book review books brian butterflies cara benson carl jung cartoon celebration 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