Tales From The Labyrinth

Stepping Into A New Cyber Home...

For those of you who may not yet know,
I've moved to a new Cyber Home!

Tales From The Labyrinth continues
~HERE~

www.lealabyrinth.com

Please come and join me!

I look forward
to sharing more adventures
and wondrous discoveries
with you along the path!

Summer Solstice 2011

On the longest day of the year
from my front porch and garden...

may beauty
warm your heart...

It's Raining...

it's pouring...



pouring
more than rain...



Power-washing my home
to get it ready for a new raincoat of paint...
and to fix
a hole or two...



Believe you me...

 

No one around here
is snoring...

Moon Kiss

The moon came down
and kissed her…

Her young years
shook out the branches of the old
and ancient tree
that lived only
for that sweet kiss…

That comes again
and again
in the late hours of the night
when all is silent,
sleeping
in dreams that breathe slowly,
deeply,
of an innocence
that does not age,
or follow the beat of time…

October 21, 2008

Happy Birth Day Mom! I think I refound this poem today, just to share with you! I wrote it two and a half years ago... and it utterly and completely delights me (as do you!!!)... I find myself reading it as if for the first time... oh to live each moment as if it is the first time... Photo: Plum blossom moon kisses bursting forth in my backyard from an ancient tree, February 2011.

Jagged Rocks

Hard earth,
these jagged rocks
like the edges of my heart,
breaking through
the surface of what you see…
New life
slips down the slender stalks
of love pushing forward
a burst of color
teaming with vibrant
beauty
this place tender
and new…

Inspired by Michelle Fairchild of Cosmic Cowgirls and 'Mojo Monday ~ Wabi-sabi'

XING

A gift from Linda & Al...
This sign
has hung for many years
in our mud-room...

Milt came up with the idea
for me to make it into a proper sign...
a tribute to Nikki
at her crossing place...
and our love for the Fox & Gonzalez families...
For Linda is another of Nikki's other moms...
and would that little fruit bat dance
when Linda came up the stairs...

Roses, Ceres, Dreams, & Mothering Day

This time of year...
our Cecil Brunner roses are a fountain of glory...



Every year
I make a nosegay of them for my mother...


Now,
more than ever,
I am so appreciative to be able to place them
into her loving hands...

This morning I wake to this dream...
they type of dream that will not let me forget...

I dream
that you are all lost in an instant…

A car wreck

and the three of you,
my family,
are no more…
Devastation tilts my world

this emptiness so huge,
that if I can only
step inside its largeness…
then I will be in the womb
of the great mother of all…
This yawning cavern of grief,
this darkness all consuming
is in itself
a pinprick of light
where I stand alone
surrounded by a space so infinite
no words can carve out
a crevice for me to crawl beneath,
on top of,
or further in…
Where are you Ceres on this day of mothering???
I cannot be Persephone
for I am too old…
time has taken me places

I never imagined
and I feel the waning of my
chance to be mother
and the shrinking of my womb
as I watch the lines on my face
deepen,
moving me ever closer to the precipice of death…

I wake this morning
to these musings…
My father, sister, and mother are truly here…
but the landscape has changed
and raindrops and rays of light
fill the palms of my
upturned and empty hands…

I turn and step into

mothering this new-found space
inside...

Roses...

What is blooming in your life???

Faeries & Gnomes

Today...
was a day of surprises...
faeries showed up in our garden...

making crowns...

and daisy chain necklaces...

and tiny charms...

even the gnomes came out to see...

this day of April-bliss-faerie-gnome-surprises...

Strawberry Fields Forever

The first of our sweet peas have bloomed...

"Strawberry Fields" is their luscious name...



I wish you could come over and breath deeply
of their incredible scent...



My dear Ulla came and found me last week
and brought me this precious tiny strawberry teapot...



actually...
the tiny vase is from Ulla also...
how wonderful it is to have friends to treasure...

And SomePinkFlowers...
that strawberry~tinted~"heart~shaped" labyrinth was inspired by you!!!!

Such beauty... such Strawberry Fields Forever...