Category: Still Life
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Turquoise Truck | Methow, WA | May 2020 Truck parked too long, weeds ‘round the wheels, crank up the motor, see how she feels / Air in the tires, gas gauge on
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Luminescence | East Wenatchee, WA | May 2020 This fetch ball glows in the dark, but our dog doesn’t give a damn. He can spot a tossed no-glow ball in a yard lit only by starlight. We humans, however, find such radiance absolutely amazing. The ball’s luminescent material somehow traps photons and slowly releases them.…
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Thistle | Entiat, WA | May 2020 Comfort lies in the natural order. This whirl of uncertainty and helplessness quiets in Mother’s hand. Despite our fears, her ancient patterns persist — sunrise, jet stream, snowmelt, apple blossoms, ants marching with
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Pencil Shavings | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | The greatest inventions — spoon, book, pencil — are so pure in design and function that their digital versions often appear laughable. Sure, I read on a Kindle and type on a computer, but these technologies always feel like the first…
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Cowboy Hat | East Wenatchee,WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | Hair gone; hat on. In fact, hats as head warmers now fit snugly atop my aging body’s list of corrective measures — eyeglasses, medicines, dental fillings, arterial stents and, egads, ear-fuzz trimmers. For me, cowboy hats are far too cumbersome for daily…
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Potted Plant | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Things Around the House | There it is — one gazillionth of the great global churn of photosynthesis, and it lounges languorously in our dining room window. This rooted resident is an unspecified house plant, actually a type of stunted tree, that works all day to…
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Bread | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 “Bread making is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells. There is no chiropractic treatment, no yoga exercise, no hour of meditation that will
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Seed Pod | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Life’s initial phase has a remarkably similar shape whether it’s seeds, salamanders or Sammy, our gas station attendant down the road. An embryo generally sports an elliptical shape, porous membrane, umbilical cord and khaki shirt with a “Sammy” patch above the pocket. (Wait a minute ……
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Artichoke | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Poet Carl Sandburg had a pithy quote about being human: “Life is like an onion. You peel it one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” But I tend to think life is more like an artichoke: “Pluck and savor leaf after leaf until you find…
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Mop | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Breakfast done, dog walked, lawn watered. What now in self-isolation? Is bucket and mop really a consideration? For Buddhist monks, “Cleaning isn’t considered burdensome or something you don’t really want to do and wish to get over with as soon as possible,” writes Shoukei Matsumoto in his…
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