In the beginning . . . words from the Ground Up

December 6, 2020.Reading time 41 minutes.

First Chakra

The following quotes are from an ever-growing collection you may also find under Projects: Chakra Quotes. After doing so much research, when I read, my brain automatically says, “Oh, this is connected to such-and-such a chakra,” and, so, I started collecting and categorizing them.

Music Monday – Hello

September 21, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

About a boy
Beyond it all
About a boy
Beyond it all

– Patti Smith

Writing Prompt Wednesday 33 – invocation of solitude

September 16, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

along the edges of fate, press into the thin skin of sublime choice

Music Monday – Oh! Lou! Happy Birthday!

March 2, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Happy Birthday, Lou! I’m so grateful for Lou Reed! So grateful for my two decades in New York City! So grateful for my life today. Photo of Lou Reed above – Photographer Unknown Patti Smith and Lou Reed – Photo by Lynn Goldsmith

Keep on Dancing (Barefoot) ~ Music Monday Bonus

February 3, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Thank you, Ivan Král. Dancing Barefoot Ivan Kral and Patti Smith She is benediction She is addicted to thee She is the root connection She is connecting with he Here I go and I don’t know why I flow so ceaselessly Could it be he’s taking over me I’m dancing barefoot Headin’ for a spin […]

Riding into the Velvet Sunset

October 29, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

“Jenny said when she was just five years old
There was nothing happening at all
Every time she puts on a radio
There was a nothin’ goin’ down at all, not at all
Then one fine mornin’ she puts on a New York station
You know, she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started shakin’ to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll
Despite all the amputations
You know you could just go out
And dance to a rock ‘n’ roll station
It was alright (it was alright)
Hey baby, you know it was alright (it was alright)”

– Lou Reed

photo of the Lofi Sofias playing as The Velvet Underground by Paul Perreault

Never Forget – People Have the Power ~ American Sentence Day 108 of 108

October 1, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Was there ever a time when imagination and love are not more important than ever?

Image: Detail of Sky Pixel 4 – in progress

“You just keep doing your work . . . ” Patti Smith – Music Monday

August 5, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

What is your calling?

Flash (R)evolution

February 17, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

I am moving house. Well, apartment to house. Still renting, but I am spreading out, sort of.

Whenever I move I find stuff – lots of writing especially. I write a lot, but it doesn’t mean I type it, or file it properly, or share it.

The discipline is in the order, not the action for me. I don’t know when I wrote this, I suspect right before moving to Arizona, 2006/2007, while I was leaving my husband and living in a basement in Brooklyn.