life without words

yesterday...

2010-02-16T11:09:00.000-08:00

house plants

2010-02-15T20:56:00.000-08:00

garden fresh

2009-07-31T18:11:00.000-07:00

rhubarb pie

2009-07-15T10:33:00.000-07:00

It was a rough day for my pastry cutter, but the pie was well worth it.

the great question

2009-07-08T08:33:00.000-07:00

It was not my intention, or desire, to seek my own personal ease and comfort while so much sorrow and distress filled the land. But the great question to be decided was, what can I do? What part can I myself play in this great drama?

- Emma Edmonds

[found in: Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit]

today

2009-06-02T21:23:00.001-07:00

why?

2009-05-28T20:20:00.000-07:00

...because we're on vacation.

go green?

2009-03-05T09:03:00.000-08:00

creative marketing or the creative erosion of globally important issues?

invincible

2009-02-09T08:46:00.000-08:00

found a good omen inside my desk!

glamerous me!

2009-02-04T11:52:00.000-08:00

((special thanks to Oshia for taking such a great shot!))

lights

2009-01-04T13:12:00.000-08:00

01001101 01111001 00100000 01001110 01100001 01101101 01100101

2008-11-14T22:08:00.000-08:00

Jennifer =>

Origin: Welsh
Meaning: White Wave

....and as an additional bonus, in ASCII binary my name is:
01001010 01100101 01101110 01101110
01101001 01100110 01100101 01110010
(which kind of looks like a wave if i stare at it long enough!)

((oh, and my personal power animal is the black mamba....))

http://www.isthisyour.name/

all in a day's work

2008-10-18T22:12:00.000-07:00

here. maybe was.

2008-10-18T17:53:00.000-07:00

things that stay the same....

2008-08-18T11:48:00.000-07:00

awhile

2008-08-14T15:32:00.000-07:00

it's been awhile....
....but here i am
again and still

something old, and something new

2008-06-19T14:35:00.000-07:00

in common with a monster

2008-04-18T10:25:00.000-07:00

"Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them." (p. 128)

. . . a reflection by the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

eerie and still, the making of

2007-11-02T09:39:00.002-07:00

eerie and still

2007-10-31T17:36:00.000-07:00

long embrace

2007-10-29T18:09:00.000-07:00

'the parts are thus stricken'

2007-10-10T16:53:00.000-07:00

(this captures a bit of my ?temporary? mood and maybe a bit of my interest in ecological restoration) A passage from A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation From Round River by Aldo Leopold:

There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

A professor may pluck the strings of his won instrument, but never that of another, and if he listens for music he must never admit it to his fellows or to his students. For all are restrained by an ironbound taboo which decrees that the construction of instruments is the domain of science, while the detection of harmony is the domain of poets.

Professors serve science and science serves progress. It serves progress so well that many of the more intricate instruments are stepped upon and broken in the rush to spread progress to all backward lands. One by one the parts are thus stricken from the songs of songs. If the professor is able to classify each instrument before it is broken, he is well content. 168-169

year old october

2007-10-01T18:17:00.000-07:00

inside a rainy day. . .

2007-10-01T18:09:00.000-07:00

remembering summer hills and horses

2007-09-22T17:45:00.000-07:00

pieces of gold and sun

2007-08-26T11:02:00.000-07:00

Bemidji rose

The Order of Things

2007-07-24T13:31:00.000-07:00

". . .his body entirely in profile, the ambiguous visitor is coming in and going out at the same time, like a pendulum caught at the bottom of its swing. He repeats on the spot. . ." -Michel Foucault

-An immediately familiar state of existence!

secret smile

2007-07-09T21:57:00.001-07:00

marks in my book

2007-06-21T17:03:00.000-07:00

Just finished The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I marked a few favorite spots near the beginning. . .

-> "I figgered about the Holy Sperit and the Jesus road. I figgered, 'Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit--the human sperit--the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.' Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all of a suddent--I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it."

->"Like a damn ol' graveyard ghos'. I been goin' aroun' the places where stuff happened. Like there's a place over by our forty; in a gully they's a bush. Fust time I ever laid with a girl was there. Me fourteen an' stampin' an' jerkin' an' snortin' like a buck deer, randy as a billy-goat. So I went there an' I laid down on the groun', an' I seen it all happed again. An' there's the place down by the barn where Pa got gored to death by a bull. An' his blood is right in that groun', right now. Mus' be. Nobody never washed it out. An' I put my han' on that groun' where my own pa's blood is part of it."

->"I ain't gonna baptize. I'm gonna work in the fiel's, in the green fiel's, an' I'm gonna be near to folks. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why the folks walks in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin' mush. Gonna hear husban' an' wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with 'em an' learn." His eyes were wet and shining. "Gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me. Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'. All that's holy, all that's what I didn' understan'. All them things is the good things."

me! (but just for a moment. . .)

2007-06-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

Chicago

2007-06-13T18:14:00.000-07:00

small things

2007-06-13T17:48:00.001-07:00

railing

2007-04-23T20:11:00.000-07:00

a day late

2007-02-15T17:32:00.000-08:00

I will remember many people, but I will define love by those I know I will miss.

agone

2006-11-23T14:47:00.000-08:00

pink & grey

2006-11-22T17:16:00.000-08:00

when i have to choose. . .

2006-11-04T16:15:00.000-08:00

"i love you hot"

2006-11-03T20:10:00.000-08:00

a little like me

2006-10-05T15:22:00.000-07:00

(not) itsy-bitsy

2006-09-29T19:41:00.000-07:00

quiz

2006-09-09T20:20:00.000-07:00

Q: When the going gets tough, the tough get _________.

a. mad
b. SWISSGEAR
c. going
d. fast food

A: a, b, and d.

I am still in Columbus.

the Easter Egg Fight

2006-04-28T12:17:00.000-07:00

A celebration with friends.

springtime green

2006-04-21T13:26:00.000-07:00

a warm "hello"

2006-03-29T16:32:00.000-08:00

Michelle

2006-03-02T16:28:00.000-08:00

Root beer floats, the weight room, makeup and hand lotion, penny slots and a sauna, lazy mornings and movies, ranting, silence and tears helped me find my little sister. She was not where I thought I left her a few years back, or maybe it was even longer ago. I felt her in a space less defined by my placement of her in my life and much more defined by everything about her. And it was good.

new metal

2006-02-09T15:19:00.000-08:00

RED!

2006-01-23T11:11:00.000-08:00

My new favorite color . . .wink, wink.

Spirit

2006-01-22T14:21:00.000-08:00

It is within my grandfather's arms
and
in the belief that “one day
you will wake up . . .
and you will know.”

room with white walls, and you

2005-12-22T17:13:00.000-08:00

The Christmas Tree Star

2005-12-14T11:09:00.000-08:00

I wonder if the Christmas Tree Mug will catch on? It seems just about as reasonable as the star. Caffeine has helped guide me on many great journeys, through my consumption or that of others.

By “great journeys”, I think I mean long, tedious, interesting, exciting, exhilarating movements through time where keys get locked in cars, cars get flat tires, roadsides disappear with construction, tie straps make a mockery of planning . . . wiring diagrams start to relax a little, the laundry piles seem to get smaller, letters of intent begin to reveal intent, a few Russian words begin to make sense . . . prepared meals are shared with friends, new jobs are taken, Christmas trees are decorated . . . an unexpected ride on a motorcycle ends three feet from a brick wall (completely frightening, but maybe just as exciting). . .

I am looking forward to another year of great journeys and the brick walls that are no match for caffeine.

Someday

2005-12-02T14:47:00.000-08:00

Someday, I will not be here . . .

I may never feel the cold of a falling snow,

never the mischief of a December wind,

never the life I helped create,

I may never . . .ever . . . again.

crossing.

2005-11-13T20:31:00.000-08:00

Black & White

2005-11-06T13:50:00.000-08:00

two for the show. . .

2005-10-21T15:53:00.000-07:00

Autumn

2005-10-06T19:57:00.000-07:00

Unemployed

2005-10-03T12:00:00.000-07:00

Awake

2005-08-25T15:26:00.000-07:00

the cool shade

2005-08-25T15:22:00.000-07:00

Within

2005-08-25T14:59:00.000-07:00

Thank You Tommi!

2005-08-15T18:12:00.000-07:00

14 Years Ago (and me)

2005-08-08T18:21:00.000-07:00

Away in You

2005-08-05T21:08:00.000-07:00

secret picture
sister perfume
ice and fever
away in you

ant

2005-04-23T14:52:00.000-07:00

ant
Originally uploaded by whitewave.

All Modern

2005-04-06T17:42:00.000-07:00

bemidji 007
Originally uploaded by whitewave.

alluring blue

2005-03-08T18:25:00.000-08:00

DSCF0045
Originally uploaded by whitewave.

doorknob

2005-02-22T21:29:00.000-08:00

DSCF0037
Originally uploaded by whitewave.

tomatoes

2005-01-31T21:37:00.000-08:00

tomatoes
Originally uploaded by whitewave.