Friday, October 6, 2006

"A Change of Season"
6:23pm

When we came home this evening, a pleasant surprise awaited us. The house was cool, and we didn't need to turn on the AC. We have waited long for the time when life in Yuma rewards us, and now is the time. While northern parts of the country are going as low as the mid teens (3 C), we'll have good sleeping with windows open. But our leaves are not changing color. When they do, in the chilliest winter, they turn golden at most, never a red. I enjoyed the changing leaves while in Seattle:


And yes, there was a faint smell of salty ocean breezes...


So vibrant...


One fallen leaf made such a perfect pentacle, I had to save it...

Because we don't have that type of tree here in Yuma, I took that leaf and put it between the pages of my sketchbook. It's only faded a little bit since then.

Saturday, October 7, 2006 A

"Where the Light Shines Through"
9:07am

Who knows what all inspired the following poem? Many things, I suspect, including the star like shape of leaves:

Find the center,
there's a thread that holds it all together,
woven from one thread...
two threads,
find center...

Hands dart about,
seeking, seeking,
this thread eludes,
yet I know its there...

I feel the texture the interweaving makes,
nubbly and nice.
garment of the whole,
I dwell in the whole,
me here in my mind.

This garment,
does it wrap around all,
each, the surrounding elasticity?

I think it does,
arms of Nuit reaching far.
She wraps around us,
holds us all
and who can know of what yarn she is made?

Starlight peaks through the interweavings.
I am one such star...
and there are so many centers...

JAL, 10-7-06


Where the light shines through...

When I read the poem to Julia, she asked which 'peaks' did I mean, 'peaks' or 'peeks'? I meant 'peek' as 'peek through', but 'peaking' as reaching "a high point in a course of development" (according to m-w.com) works, too. This suggests Xeper. She also asked about using the word 'whole' twice. Should I change it to "garment of the whole, I dwell in the hole'? This would emphasize my distinction from Nuit. But I also dwell 'in the whole'. I think I mean both of those meanings.

Saturday, October 7, 2006 B

"Fountains of Creation"
10:40pm


The inscription plaque informs this is 'Fountain of Creation' by Everett Dupen, for Century 21 World's Fair 1962, and reconstructed in 1992
(close up of this sculpture available)


view from upper level of Seattle Center...


'Fountain of Seseragi' by Gerald Tsutakawa, 2000 in Seattle Center


'International Fountain' renovated and expanded in 1995, in Seattle Center

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