Tuesday, October 25, 2011

still life: spoken word blog round up

Angie over at still lifew with circles and also still life 365 has come up with another amazing prompt. i want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for this spoken blog round up. hearing the voices and seeing the faces of these woman whose blogs i have been reading for so long was monumentally moving. i hope mine contribution can measure up.
here is my video

time and grief

time marches on. the days pass. when your baby dies-you are sure that time will stop- should't it stop? Shouldn't the world cease it joyful spinning,if only for a day, a week, a year?
you cannot fathom 2 years away. time without her too terrible to contemplate.

yet- the weeks creep by,pages relentlessly turn.

i am left with so much more of missing Aquila than i ever had of simply loving her. all the time i had to get to know her was hidden under my flesh her near my heart.It seems like, on days like these, she was just figment of my imagination- a private dream. She doesn't matter to the world anymore. To most she is merely something i should have gotten over by now. something that i am just stubbornly refusing to let go of.
No one says her name, hardly even me. I want to have her be part of normal conversations, but it so pains almost any audience- that whatever normalcy i tried for falls flat and heavy on the floor.

as my chaos slows after the move, i am left with deep and heavy sorrow. i miss her so much. How many ways can i say it? There should be a million words to describe the many ways that grief feels..like snow for Inuits.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

sorry

i apologize for being the worst blogger ever. i have been very busy. we arrived in Oregon exactly two weeks ago today, after staying in Oklahoma for a month to spend time with family. We are staying in a rental house in a suburb of Portland while we look at properties to buy in the country.

This land is so breathtaking and beautiful. i LOVE the overcast/drizzle/GREEN. i guess my English Grandmother's genes shine through in the climate. I don't miss the brown/HOT climate of Texas one bit. There are people i miss dearly though....

Here we are making new friends. Everyone we meet is so friendly- except for the few 'Portlandia-style' hipsters that can be found almost exclusively in downtown Portland.
here is a very cute video of my water-loving baby girl
willow's bath