Pewter sun and a Monte Cristo @ minus 16 C
February 11, 2007
EA fter shoveling the skiff of snow this afternoon, with the pine siskins harassing the chickadees in the pines along my street, I thought I’d crank up the little 11,000 btu deck heater and enjoy one of the Monte Cristos (This one just arrived from Cuba via friends). The sun was a pewter hint behind thick cloud and I actually moved my chair away from the heater to sit in the faint sunlight, hoping to feel that blush of warmth on my cheeks from old Sol. There is (are?) over three feet of snow in the yard. It’s been a long slow accumulation. I thought about the not-so-minor miracle of spring, of seasons, of all this snow being gone and the grass, and garden beneath. It made me appreciate the snow—to know it will be gone soon. I kind of started to feel sorry for snow—all roughly 2,400 cubic feet of it in this backyard. So I drifted in a cool Sunday reverie and smoked the cigar. I had the Mac laptop out there and iTunes somehow wound up playing Barber's Agnus Dei, a perfect soundtrack for the afternoon. I’ve often thought that smoking a cigar, because you cannot rush a cigar, is a kissing cousin to meditation. I kept my “monkey brain” in the present and thoroughly enjoyed the day--the taste of the cigar, the cold air, the pale sky. Near the end of the Monte Cristo I decided to take my frozen feet inside and as I switched off the heater, and picked up my laptop, I noticed the snow had begun to trickle down again.
As I file this journal entry, the Oilers are up 5-1 on the Atlanta Thrashers late in the third period, but ...with this inconsistent crew I am afraid to have hope.
The word of the week is vivopoesis.
vivopoesis [vivo-poe-sis]–noun
1. an act or instance of editing poetry by living the poem--getting to the living heart of the poem (historically performed through intensive meditation and then editing with a pencil, on paper)
-verb
2. the process of tinkering with words.
3. an act or instance of vivopoesis: I am performing the vivopoesis on these poems.
4. pruning or trimming a tree.
5. to find unlikely beauty in things or people.
6. to mend, or repair with artists’ eyes, or hands.
from the Latin “in vivo” meaning: in the living organism, or within a living organism.
2 Comments
1. Rosemary had this to say: Feb 12, 2007 ~ 11:22 ~ #
Check out this link Thomas if you like making up your own radio stations.
www.pandora.com
Just use a fake US postal code to get past the security I used 90210.
Rosemary