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journal fragment 3.15.2025:

The Ides of March. We are here. What’s up in the world funneling to fascism? What’s new in insanity? 

. . . For a few minutes, lying in bed — there was peace. I had peace. I felt peace. I heard the birds singing. Now, it’s silent outside. The air is very still — oh! Wait! There’s a slight sway in the treetops. I see a crow at the very top of a tree. The sky is pale grey. The ice on the lake has thawed.

It’s the inhale before Spring.

I hear the clicking of the heater.

Meditation on the High Priestess:

from Rachel Pollack’s book Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom:

Pope Joan legend and Mafreda Visconti illustrate major social development in Middle Ages — reintroduction of female and feminine principles into religion and cosmology . . . People were tired of unremitting judgment of the Father . . . Demanded a female.

. . . Darkness, mystery, psychic forces, power of the moon to stir the unconscious, passivity, and the wisdom gained from it. High Priestess — Inner wisdom at it’s deepest level.

. . . Person beginning in spiritual discipline often prefers to stay at the visionary level rather than go through the slow hard work needed to advance. 

inner self — passivity — potential → ACTION

Makes me think of the saying, “Faith without works is dead.”

March 15, 2025
Hudson Valley, New York

10,000 Plum Doodles Project 

I often use scribbles as the genesis for a painting. These squiggles carry energy for me, and on their own, they tell a story. I call them plums because they are little treats for my imagination. I will continue adding to this project until I have reached 10,000 drawings.

John S. Hall‘s 10,000 Poems Project inspired me – but rather than writing – I decided to collect my drawings. Sometimes I write when I doodle, and sometimes I share the writing as well.