La Charpente

2012-02-10T00:00:00.003-06:00

. . S. James.

2012-02-09T00:36:00.000-06:00

. I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!. LOUISE BOGAN.. .

I Love to Read!

2012-02-07T00:00:00.004-06:00

. In Manitoba, February is 'I LOVE TO READ' month ღ hosted by our very own readingmanitoba organization, but many individuals and sponsors play a very important role in making it happen - why not consider taking part too?.For facts on Literacy in Manitoba, check out this previous post. .*.Being literate is not just about knowing how to read - it's about knowing what to read, how to talk about

Le paradis engivré

2012-02-06T01:29:00.001-06:00

. Leonard Cohen's hallelujah plays on the car radio; lambent lights through the fog announce the scene of an accident. This, by the way, was the day the frosted February landscape made white on white the most beautiful colour she had ever seen! This is only she taking part in a movie,the crisp crescendo on her FM dial cuing her into a script yet to be written, and besides,she knows life

2012-02-02T02:02:00.005-06:00

. When fog fell over the city, Geia and the goddesses awoke from their slumber. At first tip-toeing softly about, so as not to wake the sleeping, soon gamboling through their streets as if they hadn't danced for decades. The women, in fact, had not danced upon their Earth for thirty-three years. They rejoiced in each others' rhythm and movement, so grateful were they for this night to arrive.

2012-02-01T00:00:00.003-06:00

. Learn to get in touch withthe silence within yourself and knowthat everything in this life has a purpose. ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS.

2012-01-30T00:39:00.002-06:00

. . she keeps her tree on the corner warm in the winter months, and cares for all things living..Street Art Utopia

Crescent Moon Rd.

2012-01-29T02:19:00.004-06:00

. She sleeps below the old elmon the corner, all arms and legslike a good long morning stretch. In the early moonlightshe rises, looks about herand with curious, smiling eyesshe dawdled up the road, feeling asrefreshed as an angel emerging from the clouds..

FAMILY LITERACY DAY

2012-01-27T00:00:00.001-06:00

. .to someone you love ღ.

2012-01-25T14:00:00.000-06:00

. . Oakoak

New Moon

2012-01-25T02:17:00.010-06:00

. The angels have leftWithout leaving a trace of their fall. alone. I am. abandoned beneath the dark side of the moon -O black starless gloom!..

2012-01-23T13:03:00.000-06:00

. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. .

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2012-01-21T00:30:00.001-06:00

. .street art by: TASSO.lOOk closely at this dream...

porch

2012-01-20T01:32:00.000-06:00

. The porch ran the width of the big yellow house down the hill. It served as launching pad for superheroes and for private conversations overheard. Yes, it was me, the eavesdropper-detective. I was also the superhero to follow my brother's flight off the edge - I could so do whatever he could! - only to fall flat on my face and lose my first set of teeth. My childhood would be an incomplete

2012-01-17T12:00:00.001-06:00

. where does an artist see opportunity?... ...The Journey.. Oakoak.

2012-01-16T00:00:00.001-06:00

. . Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.. , , ROBIN NORWOOD. .

2012-01-15T00:00:00.000-06:00

. . It was another great evening at Winnipeg's finest & funnest underground venue! Here's the eclectic Chris Carmichael performing at The Cyrk on Friday. enJoy....

2012-01-14T12:00:00.001-06:00

. . various artistsAnother of the chosen 106 most beloved street art .

found

2012-01-13T14:00:00.001-06:00

. I found him near the river wringing out his blue towel. He must have dropped it. Not aware that someone was watching, he seemed at peace in that moment. There wasn't a single wrinkle on the water that day. No one would know he went to sleep with ghosts at night and woke up with damp, wrinkled skin every morning. He flung the wet towel across his shoulder and stared up at the sky, as blue as

2012-01-09T00:00:00.002-06:00

. So you see, imagination needs noodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. .BRENDA UELAND..photo: Ralph Markham, my friend who hears mesay words like 'noodling' andwonders which centuryI was born in..

Mother Nature plays

2012-01-08T00:00:00.000-06:00

... and leaps and dances about the winter skies .... . .

Promises

2012-01-07T00:00:00.005-06:00

. The snow has returned and the girl feels comforted. She knows now that sometimes it rains in January. The lines that shape the space she inhabits, sent off-kilter, left her precious little to grab on to in her falling down life. There are only four things prairie dwellers grow up knowing intimately: spring, summer, autumn and winter. It's doctrine runs through their veins and channels through

2012-01-06T00:00:00.000-06:00

. . Johann Frick.

January haiku

2012-01-05T01:50:00.003-06:00

. January rain on a winter window pane; Mother Nature plays ¸.•*•♪ღ ..

2012-01-02T01:44:00.001-06:00

. . .

2012-01-01T12:00:00.001-06:00

. ‎‎‎‎"What day is it?"' asked Pooh. "It is today," answered Piglet. "Ah, my favourite day." remarked Pooh. ...

in Three .. Two .. One.

2011-12-31T16:30:00.016-06:00

. The year of the flood ended with the girl standing in the haar, green grass beneath the soles of her boots, waiting. The Red water still flowed through her prairie town and this year, her neighbours did not complain about the cold and police did not fear finding frozen bodies on the river's edge. This year, children asked their parents why they couldn't skate the river, and the men wondered

in 3 - 1

2011-12-29T00:15:00.000-06:00

. I wished on many moons for youbut you never heard my pleas. ¿Please! I wished on many stars for mehoping You would help me seewhat could never be..

2011-12-24T12:00:00.003-06:00

. . L'histoire la plus importante écrit au sujet de l'amour . . . rentrez si vous l'osez.. peace. love. joy..

in 3 - 1

2011-12-19T02:00:00.004-06:00

. A pear tree is what he gave meOn that last Christmas day.I excavated below andBuilt windows for a roof aboveHoping it would never die. ... but it did ...

in 3 - 1

2011-12-15T03:06:00.000-06:00

. There is no one to share this night with, The howling windThe wee snowflakes to finally replace this December rainThe desperate attempts of the near-full moon to vaunt sadly. .

in 3 - 1

2011-12-14T12:00:00.003-06:00

. The scent of peeled oranges permeated the air about their private prairie hide-away; black tea steeped upward to the sky; from their patch of golden, they watched the clouds fly by...

in 3 - 1

2011-12-13T23:44:00.002-06:00

. purple garden gloves lay on the soil bed; in their plastic pots flowers line the walk. but there’s no signof the girl who roots them just soin the springtime ....

in 3 - 1

2011-12-12T00:00:00.004-06:00

. . My love affairWith the alphabet (including the Q[ueue!])Is a well documented one.At least, I think so – do you?For you are J&JOf the flourish on my 'W'.calligraphy: M. Hébert.

Words that have influenced me in 2011

2011-12-10T02:29:00.004-06:00

. Kingdom, Phyllum Adam Dickinson The Sutler Michael Kenyon The Burning Alphabet Barry Dempster August Witch Chandra Mayor The

in 3 - 1

2011-12-09T00:05:00.009-06:00

. you............... i can’t remember what you looked like before i loved you were you always so beautiful -and were my eyes so full of fishesevery time you entered a room?.

in 3 - 1

2011-12-07T01:50:00.006-06:00

. pen on paper, soft passionate kisses that go on forever . . .dirty truths scratched in scarlet make their appearance too! clearly, I AM an eXhibitionist worthy of purple prose. .

in 3 - 1

2011-12-05T15:00:00.001-06:00

. je connais l’amour tu sais … (oui, c’est vrai) et malgré ces cicatrices des échecs qui détaillent le contourde mon esprit,je désire que tu restechez moi àl'infini .

in 3 - 1

2011-12-04T23:02:00.000-06:00

. I have felt it rush through these veinsfill my heartwith you and you andripe with yearningit continues to beatits ballad.yes,it’s true ...I have loved..

in 3 - 1

2011-12-02T23:59:00.004-06:00

. soiled and sulliedall these words once virgin and unspoken,trembling, niggling at mefor a place to be they are,now -in journals and stories,borrowed, bent, bestowed, at home..

thirty-one dirty words in december ...

2011-12-01T23:26:00.001-06:00

. What shall I write during these thirty-one days of December? That will be for us all to see, though limited to thirty-one flippy little words it shall be (but for three!)..

2011-11-30T00:00:00.000-06:00

. . Joyful .. lively .. bold .. beautiful. Meet the Sand Dancer....

2011-11-27T17:52:00.000-06:00

. . Why should we all use our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. . BRENDA UELAND.

2011-11-26T12:00:00.002-06:00

. . FRANCESCO WOODMANI.

standstill

2011-11-25T21:07:00.004-06:00

. your jaw drops in surprise while mine spills and over and over to voice this heart that speaks so loudly I can't hear myself think. silence empties the hole that holds these questions: someone walks away;someone stands still I scream, Wait! not yetnot now there's morebut only the ghost of youis there, the door ajarand hope now a luxury,alone I sit you sitwaiting for a miracle .

haïku sans fin

2011-11-24T22:56:00.001-06:00

. . tepid trickle on my cheekyour love draped in whitetissues at my feet.

2011-11-20T00:00:00.000-06:00

. . image vii, thru the kaleidoscope: allegory - a croc? .

allegory

2011-11-19T00:27:00.001-06:00

. The writer was known for his habitual use of allegory - mules, lions and muskrats fluttering about his pages struggling for power over one realm or another. Sometime during the writing of his last publication, for her they had all become one story. Blood was always shed. Death inevitably won. And now he wanted her to read yet another four-legged allegory on good and evil, only this time, it

2011-11-14T21:26:00.000-06:00

. . . What we play is life. LOUIS ARMSTRONG..

I know ...

2011-11-13T02:52:00.000-06:00

. . . . . yes, Adam is Leonard's son. i hope you enJoy!

windows

2011-11-12T13:47:00.000-06:00

.Shattered, scattered fragmentsOf glassBroken paneAll about meI step softlyAfraid of the debrisThat remainsla vitrine de mon cœur est fragile

2011-11-09T19:00:00.002-06:00

WINDOW. . image vi, thru the kaleidoscope, (with mosaic filter) photo: M. Hébert.

window

2011-11-08T23:48:00.003-06:00

. When Adam was a young boy he believed that everything was possible. His dad told him so. His dad was an important person with an important boss and worked in a very big building. He even had a window. Adam didn't understand the significance of the window but it seemed to be very important to his dad's success. He 'had it all', they said. And a window. That's why Adam didn't understand why

2011-11-06T00:00:00.000-05:00

. . ImagInatIonis more importantthan knowledge.ALBERT EINSTEIN.

aRt & Academia - Yankee Doodle

2011-11-05T00:18:00.001-05:00

. .from marjo's student handbook: rule no. 2: imagine :)

aRt & Academia

2011-11-03T18:21:00.005-05:00

. . from marjo's student handbook: rule no. 1: make mistakes. i hope you enJoy!

2011-11-02T13:00:00.001-05:00

. . klimt.

Grace

2011-11-01T18:06:00.002-05:00

. . . the girl who lives too close to the sun seeks out grace in the beauty that lives in her heart where on most days no one can see it but her.. . . .

2011-10-28T00:00:00.002-05:00

. . What lies behind and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. . RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

choosing a new path

2011-10-27T00:17:00.000-05:00

. . image v, thru the kaleidoscope photo: M. Hébert.

¡ Feliz Cumpleaños ! ..to me

2011-10-25T23:17:00.002-05:00

October 19th came and went, unnoticed, uncelebrated. I allowed others’ needs to get in the way of what deserved my attention. For that I owe myself an apology. It’s a very important date for me, the 7th anniversary of things left behind and of an unknown future embraced. After 18 years of working in a left-brain field (..finance) for a large corporation, I dove into truly unknown waters. The joy

sun spots

2011-10-20T13:15:00.002-05:00

.Watercolour artist, Darlene Payne, sent in these beautiful scenesinspired by my 3 part poem 'sun spots'. Thank you, Darlene! . they contemplate the existence of he and of we and of blue-bellied turtles o o o.. he traipses purple hills with a blue-bellied turtle & mongeese he can't see. . ...in the harbour where they play every day..

2011-10-18T14:57:00.000-05:00

.. CREATIVITY REQUIRES FAITH. FAITH requires that we relinquish control. This is frightening, and we resist it.. from The Artist's Way, JULIA CAMERON .

laura smith

2011-10-15T01:43:00.002-05:00

. .Soulful Canadian lyricist and singer, Laura Smith has topped my chart since I discovered her amazing talent fourteen years ago. She's not one to share her originals on forums like You Tube. Here, she sings a personal & very beautiful version of her ancestors' song. I hope you enJoy ! .

2011-10-14T00:00:00.000-05:00

. sun spot .image iv, thru the kaleidoscope (photo negative)photo: M. Hébert.

sun spots

2011-10-13T00:00:00.006-05:00

iii pink sunlight casts evening shadowson his hut, his homewhere he will feast on seaweed and electric eels on the landing he empties his pocketof pearls that he and his blue friendamass in the harbour where they play every daythen settle their fine calcareous orbsin a basket by the doorwhite and black and as iridescent asthe fire that he and the blue-bellied turtlewill build in the nightfor

sun spots

2011-10-12T00:00:00.006-05:00

ii purple hills on his islandcrawl with purple mongeese which are very hard to see! sTillin the morningwhen the sun's still askewhe traipses purple hillswith a blue-bellied turtle & mongeese he can't see hE's not afraid of the invisible and so they let him be. .

sun spots

2011-10-11T01:02:00.005-05:00

. the briny sea air wafts ashoretherewhere he sitswith the blue-bellied turtleon the white sands of his islandsilently togetherthey contemplatethe existence of he and of we and of blue-bellied turtles o o o .

Grace & Isabella

2011-10-08T00:00:00.007-05:00

. ..image iii, thru the kaleidoscope (pour Luc) photo: M. Hébert.

2011-10-07T21:55:00.000-05:00

. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. Margaret Atwood..

2011-10-04T19:12:00.000-05:00

..image ii, thru the kaleidoscopephoto: M. Hébert.

2011-10-03T20:00:00.001-05:00

i don't believe in aging. i believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. hence my optimism. VIRGINIA WOOLF

2011-10-02T21:53:00.002-05:00

..This photo is one of a series of experimental photosthat was taken through a kaleidoscope.No photo altering software norPhotoshop was used.. photo: M. Hébert

2011-09-30T00:00:00.002-05:00

... ... mais la vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment tout doucement, sans faire de bruit ... YVES MONTAND,Les feuilles mortes photo: M. Hébert

2011-09-29T03:03:00.000-05:00

..photo & words:M. Hébert.

2011-09-26T00:00:00.003-05:00

..photo: M. Hébert.

Brussel Sprouts

2011-09-24T13:58:00.000-05:00