Enga mellom fjella

My comfort coffin. "Closing time at Butterfly Herbs"

I must get out of my comfort coffin more often! Yep. That's what I realized when I read "the merengue never ends." , a wonderful evening of dancing the salsa, the merengue, the ... well, whatever. IdaLin actually made me want to join her. And I don't dance. I keep my feet firmly plastered to the ground as my body tries to free itself. Someday, yeah someday ... I'll be in a coffin and not moving much, so why not get out now ... and free my knees?

One who did dance:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/032709dnmetda...

Dan Seals and John Ford Coley singing "I'd really love to see you tonight": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxdsk-cFX-k

Closing time at Butterfly Herbs

Wending my way among the jars of teas,
the chocolate candy, coffee smells,
Brown-eyes meets me at the door
to tell me I must leave
or spend the night.
I reply that I just might
except he'd make my heart go flutter,
might provoke a metamorphosis,
give me wings of joyful flight.
But, I'm too old and he's too young,
there is no question.
Across our generations:
only smirks, a gulp, an inhalation,
a catch in throat,
sad expiration,
limp wings that calmly flutter, close
then hope when
in this herbal dream of butterflies
one door opens.

© 2009 Kåre Enga [166.11] 2009-03-28

Based on going to the front door at BH's and finding it locked. And a snippet of conversation as well. [Edited after Alfred's comment]

blah-blah-BLAH-blah-blah:

Quiet weekend. Read blogs, wrote. Didn't go out much. The damp chilly weather does not amuse me. March is not my favorite month.

Did make an interesting dish yesterday. I crushed up coconut cookies and mixed the crumbs with ground pork. I simmered the pork-balls with rutabaga while I sliced up apple and halved red grapes and sprinkled curry over them. When the rutabaga was softened (it takes awhile) I just added the fruit and put a lid on it. Before eating I crumbled up some plain feta and sprinkled on top. It was very very very good.

MILLSTONES and MILESTONES:

My journal finally reached 2,002 pages ... in Book #22.

Time for me to think about attending a writer's conference:

Sephina mentioned one in Muncie, IN at Ball State on July 23-25: http://www.midwestwriters.org/

BLOGVILLE

It was QUIET this weekend in Blogville. Everyone must've been having fun or sandbagging for the flood in Fargo. Here in the Blogville exurbs, we got smacked by big wet flakes. But ... it's Monday and my email box is full! Welcome back World.

Other interesting and wonderful entries:

"Invalid Entry"  unto the seventh generation todirsa
"Invalid Entry"  arousing entry Nada
"Invalid Entry"  to touch up or not Thomas
"Invalid Entry"  why do you blog? David McClain

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WATT'S GNU'S:

Oh my, oh my. What will Chelly O wear for tea with the Queen? She'll be in England and France y'all may as well know:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20626

Which brings up the question what do I wear when Da Queen visits Amerika in May? Nothing to clash with that uber-pank outfit she'll be wearing, I'm sure. Especially if David McClain out uber-panks her! Ah, the beginning of the War of Da Pank Roses.

D'ya think we-all will get an article at Yahoo too?

Montana: a chill sunny 33º at noon

grape hyacinth daffodils crocus

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