Friday Night

So one of the people I met up in the Kooteneys was Lynda, of EOOA. Currently she's touring around BC showing the movie The Future Of Food. There's going to be a showing at Juggler's house, by Nanimo Skytrain Station, on Friday June 23rd (this Friday) around 8:30 pm with a bit of a chat-and-eat both before and after. Bring some food or tea, organic animal products only please, and come watch it with us.

This means you!

604-767-7534 for directions.

Tillie Pointed Out

How to watch your brother die
by Michael Lassell

When the call comes, be calm.
Say to your wife, "My brother is dying. I have to fly
to California."
Try not to be shocked that he already looks like
a cadaver.
Say to the young man sitting by your brother's side,
"I'm his brother,"
Try not to be shocked when the young man says,
"I'm his lover. Thanks for coming."

Listen to the doctor with a steel face on.
Sign the necessary forms.
Tell the doctor you will take care of everything.
Wonder why doctors are so remote.
( Read more... )

Fly first class and drink scotch. Stroke
your split eyebrow with a finger and
think of your brother alive. Smile
at the memory and think
how your children will feel in your arms,
warm and friendly and without challenge.

Barefoot and Quickening

So far it's holding.

I'm back in the city, back at home. I've started doing the rounds -- seen Juggler, CrazyChris, and Graham. I've started the moving contemplation, and at this point I'm sorta thinking about trying to couch-surf for a month or two-- I'm not feeling like being tied down right now, and my stuff is a big tie. Better use my tolerance for being tied with people rather than things.

Today, walking home from Graham's, I took off my shoes and walked barefoot. It felt good. I avoided my community garden, having been overwhelmed by Juggler's, and I know today is gonna be overwhelming-- returning to work, Tillie's, Graham, and KMM all at the same time. Wah.

My home is clean and full of neat people. My computer fails to work still, but I have offer of a loaner laptop. My only issue is that I can't play music right now, and I'm in withdrawal from REM's Up! album.

Lovelovelovelove, and sunlight today.

On Mondays, I am entrusted with the lives of about 250 plants. That is, I checked up on 250 plants today, watered them, etc. It was awesome to see my bosses, they're so fabulous. My responsibilities are settling back on my shoulders so quick I can hear my neck popping. Maybe that's why I don't want to dive into an apartment right now?

Oh, well. I should talk to Jack and see if the house he wants to rent in September has to be in North Van. I may have time to house-hunt.

None of my plants are dead, which is awesome. I did some emergency watering yesterday, and things have perked up. Thank you, Beth, for doing that when I was gone.

Haha. I'm so happy. I'm working on a definition of extreme permaculture.

Poetry For Later

"I don't go organic often, but when I do..." by John Stammers.

I don’t ‘go organic’ often, but when I do
cash registers explode, shop assistants lurch back( Read more... )

Application to the Arts Council for a grant to write this poem Christopher Meredith

Sir/Madam
The poem (hereinafter called The Poem)
will consist of approximately 35-45 lines.
In the opening two or three lines
a startling image will be broached.
All nouns at this stage will be concrete( Read more... )

Repost:
Is/Not Margaret Atwood

Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise

sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities

you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,

nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveller( Read more... )

Today and Two Thousand Years from Now Philip Levine

The job is over. We stand under the trees
waiting to be told what to do,
but the job is over.( Read more... )

When We'll Worship Jesus Amiri Baraka

We'll worship Jesus
When jesus do
Somethin
When jesus blow up
the white house
or blast nixon down
when jesus turn out congress
or bust general motors to
yard bird motors( Read more... )

Monday Dinner!

....watching Jizztank while listening to Leonard Cohen and Janis Joplin (Take it! Take another little piece of my heart now baby!) and eating dinner. I love my home.