Same elephant grass, really chives from last Saturday's farmers market,
though (because of ?) struggling in the reduced light on our NW window sills, throws a blossom!
I've focused on the bloom. See the little pistils and stamens!
Photoed 7-5-12
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Next, Hydration: water out, water in.
Heat wave means drink more H2O
The kitchen clock at the Odd Fellows
was rescued and repaired from a dungeon trash bin
not long ago.
(Anything Man)
It was restored by Mel Stark
famed clock and can fix-it-anything man.
When asked,
Mel wondered if I had another old electric clock
that he could borrow parts from.
I did have.
Mel exchanged mechanisms,
soldered extensions onto
the smaller clock hands
and painted the renewed ones
fresh black.
It works fine
and is lit up at night by two correctly-sized
low wattage light bulbs I was able to find
from Whistling Art Olson at Ace Hardware.
The clock serves as a night light
in the kitchen.
That it says 'Estbergs Jewelers' on the face
is fitting since that famous and landmark
store was for years the corner anchor
here at the Putney (Odd Fellows) building.
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Life goes on, and GREEN
An Amaryllis bulb set in fresh soil after a two year dormancy
sprouted slightly on the day of the recall defeat.
It is now at a height of 20 + inches and still growing.
(24 inches on 7-6-12 now)
It reaches for the skylight, high and bright above.
Sometimes the two leaves lay horizontal
for maximum sun absorption
and sometimes then on their own
they will raise themselves vertical
as shown here.
It may not flower this time;
it may use it's stored energy
within the bulb to bloom
next time
coinciding we hope
with an election victory.
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Old heroes
Louie and Jack
Old rockin' chair's got me
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THIS
from Norblei on the 4th:
http://poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/lawrence-ferlinghetti-i-am-waiting/
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
I Am Waiting
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonderI am waiting for the Second Coming
and I am waiting
for a religious revival
to sweep thru the state of Arizona
and I am waiting
for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored
and I am waiting
for them to prove
that God is really American
and I am waiting
to see God on television
piped onto church altars
if only they can find
the right channel
to tune in on
and I am waiting
for the Last Supper to be served again
with a strange new appetizer
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonderI am waiting for my number to be called
and I am waiting
for the Salvation Army to take over
and I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes
and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim the earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
without killing anybody
and I am waiting
for linnets and planets to fall like rain
and I am waiting for lovers and weepers
to lie down together again
in a new rebirth of wonderI am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happiness
and I am waiting
for a reconstructed Mayflower
to reach America
with its picture story and tv rights
sold in advance to the natives
and I am waiting
for the lost music to sound again
in the Lost Continent
in a new rebirth of wonderI am waiting for the day
that maketh all things clear
and I am awaiting retribution
for what America did
to Tom Sawyer
and I am waiting
for Alice in Wonderland
to retransmit to me
her total dream of innocence
and I am waiting
for Childe Roland to come
to the final darkest tower
and I am waiting
for Aphrodite
to grow live arms
at a final disarmament conference
in a new rebirth of wonderI am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
[ from A Coney Island of the Mind. Copyright © 1958 New Directions, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti]
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