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 |   Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills. |
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Enga mellom Fjella  Sentinel Marked as if you own me I bow before the Bitterroots and just like you my rocky soil, my withered grass lays prey to the empty sky. © Kåre Enga 2007 "Sentinel"   Reader's Choice of Poems: "Sentinel" "In the midst of silence" "In search of Iris" "For Jeanette ... when she grows old" "Mauve Mavis" Reader's Choice of blog entries from my old blog "L'aura del Campo" :"Death of Jeannie New Moon" "Winter: 18 Mas'il (December 29)" "In a garden of roses, baby" "A Thanksgiving Dinner poem and the WDC Zoo" "Il pleure (poem). We R puddle-luscious, aujourd'hui." FACES     PLACES            Kåre  Enga~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop The Fish |
| ...waiting for you to return. Me: Almost done with madam, will you talk? a 1955 murder mystery written by Mary Stewart. Light reading but I'm not devouring it. I'm eating it like prized chocolate... one morsel at a time. Wrote a cento (from lines of each piece) for my chapbook. Have them ordered. Now... to go on-line and edit each one... carefully. Typos aren't always easy to catch before publishing. After? Then they are soooooo obvious.  I'm working on it every day between coffee and reading and... I'm trying to take my time rather than rush it. No other news really. Sunny, cold. Ice this morning. Good thing it's sunny. I could really get depressed (May have a bit of a cold) and curl up for a long winter's nap. I'm trying to live in the present but much of what will be in the chapbook is looking back. I have to be careful of that past. It's like that stone. Still waiting for me to return. |
| ...sorting the prose poems. moi?  "This And Every November is coming along. Down to final sort. How to choose which go where. I think... I'll start with a couple strong and joyful poems, then 4 personal but less emotional ones, followed by 6 impersonal observational pieces. The 8 (pieces 13-20) will be much more personal and at times anguished. The final 2 will be a coda. The first two could make a nice ending... but I need something to grab the reader at the beginning. The other strong poems will be #5, #11, #16, #17, #18, #20. With #20 the title poem. Of course, that's unless I change my mind. In the end decisions must be made before I'm too exhausted to care. Anyhoo... progress. |
| ...more like windblow... me: Went to the rose garden and took pictures yesterday. Today? Not enough snow for photos. Cold. Windy. A few flakes. There's so much work to do. Like potting the geraniums I filched last night. I do not like to see abandoned plants or animals. Twinges my heart every time. Yes, I know it's part of life, but... When I get to Dakar, Sénégal ...some time... I may be overwhelmed by the beggar children. If so, I'll flee to the smaller cities and towns a.s.a.p. I do not have the resources to help; but I must understand the local almsgiving. People can be generous and kind. It's just not what I'm used to. It bothers me in Costa Rica a bit also. Little or inadequate social net for the poor. For that matter, it bothers me in Montana. Reminds me of being homeless in Kansas. I'm not at ease with begging. So... the freeze over night should've killed off anything that had survived the frosts we've been having. It's time for the landscape to pull the covers over it's drowsy eyes and sleep.  Too bad I have so much work to do. 43,667 |
...yum.  ME It's always "all about me". The prose pieces that flew the farthest had "me" in them. So I'm down to 23 for 22 spots in the chapbook (a mini-book of just a few pages, let's say 7 or 8 sheets of paper = 28 to 32 pages, which should be enough for 22 pieces of lyrical prose/poetry and acknowledgements et cetera). Thomas Harper from WDC helped as did Shannon Kemp, Parris Young and Ann Bodle-Nash. 2 women, 2 men; different ages; from Minnesota, North Carolina, Montana, Washington. There were definite splits along gender and age for some of the pieces. Must consider that. Some of the pieces did not include "me"... as in... they were about someone else in 2nd or 3rd person. No problem. I have bunches of stuff that falls into that category and should I make a pile of them I could repeat the process I used this time. Choose a group of people and let them grade them. Could use another chapbook by February.... Then there's NaNoWriMo. My "Blood of the Garlic" stories have never been finished but I was already thinking about more placed in Portugal... but I'm apparently not visiting there this November.  So... need to find a theme. A group in Spanish may be in order for "Etud en sol bemol". 30 should do to join the 2 or 3 I've already written. Projects... Autumn is "over" here. Winter begins tonight. Winds, possible snow, could be bitter cold ...teens. Whether it returns to autumn later remains to be seen. So yesterday was the last day of market. Said good-bye to folks. Bought Tuscan sausages, ate one of "Crazy" Mike's breakfast sandwiches (He's off to Costa Rica come December), bought two small buttercup squashes and some parsnips from the Johnsons. And FROG jam from April and Ruth: FROG = fig, raspberry, orange, ginger. It's very good. |
| ...you'll leave. Eg: Feeling more cheerful. Parris showed up at writer's meeting last night with my lyrical prose graded. With three opinions it's now certain that 11 will make the chapbook, that 5 won't. When Ann responds I'll have 18 or so that will definitely be part of the book and 8 more to choose from to come up with 22, each a page long. Then they have to be sorted as to order. Each must also be looked at, reread and edited... very carefully. A cento must be put together taking a line from each piece. Font, etc. must be chosen. Cover... When the pieces are ready and put in order, 200 of each 4-pages must be made (4 pages on one sheet of paper; it'll be 8 1/2" x 5") Then the booklets need to be assembled and stapled, folded... Plenty of work. But I want 200 chapbooks that can be sold or given as gifts. Not trying to think of expense. Still, this needs to be done and over. One project completed. Then move on to others. There are plenty of other projects. Hopefully this energizes me to write something this November. Aaaah... hope. In other news it's a beautiful day. Blue skies and pleasant. Big game tomorrow. Then the weather turns. By Monday it may be below 20ºF and snowing.  But today is autumn  :Before the snowfall we must leave... So said one maple to another. 43,611 |
| ...just tired. me Got up at 8 am to walk to UM to stand in line for a ticket for the Saturday game. Got one, but it cost $45. Griz football may have a decent product but they gauge the local fans. Tickets have sky-rocketed in the last 5 years. Sad. Sunny day though. We may get snow come Monday but it'll be nice today, tomorrow, maybe Saturday as well. So... yesterday evening... butterflied pork and stuffed it with cornbread stuffing then grilled them. I have enough for 4 or 5 meals. Reminded me of the first year of college. They made stuffed steak rolls! Loved them. I overate of course. Had never had access to so much food and so much variety. Loved shrimp Newburg even more. All that wonderful see-food, eat-food. On the weight front... no good news. I really wanted to lose two stone by now. Eating stuffed pork won't help. Can I go back to sleep yet? So tired. |
| ...that's what the on-line test said. http://science.time.com/2013/10/22/the-united-states-of-attitude-an-interactive-... Guess I'm more "friendly and conventional".  me or me? Actually, another test I took way-back-when suggested Fargo or Bismarck as cities I should consider moving to. Fargo: NDSU = North Dakota State University, home of the Bisons... MSU = Minnesota State in Morehead, just across the Red river. Concordia College - Morehead NDSCS = North Dakota State College of Science - Fargo 35% Norwegian ... sister city Hamar (haven't been ...yet) 6% Swede ... sister city Vimmerby (think Pippi Longstoking ...have been close and forefathers where from that region) A certain lack of other diversity. Sunshine = 71% in July; 40% in January (much colder than Missoula but definitely sunnier) Airport (FAR) has United, American and Delta ... flights to Costa Rica are about $700. There are shorter 10/13 hour flights. (bus? maybe not; it's close to NDSU and Bus Route 13) Bus, train and other connections are very good in all directions. So... I should go visit! |
| ...I'm not sure where. me: Part of my heart still wanders the prairie of Kansas. I felt it when I crossed into Minnesota by bus years ago, when I visited the flat lands of Lincolnshire, when I walked along a mostly empty road in Guatuso, Costa Rica. I do want to go back to Costa Rica soon; I miss people. It's a friend's birthday there today. Here? Autumn. And ab-fab lovely. Beautiful fog this morning, now sunshine, not a cloud in view. But only part of me lives here. I've left little pieces of me everywhere. Eureka CA, Tahlequah, OK, Ålesund in Norway... I could go on for hours. Each place has given me something and become a part of me. Oddly, I rarely feel an urge to visit where I grew up. Too many emotions, not all of them good. I do miss many of the wonderful people who still live there though. I am the meadow between the mountains (the name of this blog). For now, this is enough. 43,466 |
| ...go back to Costa Rica. yo: I'm missing my friends in Costa Rica. Edited some photos today and moved some around. Lots of work ...for what? I'd just as soon be traveling and taking more photos. Patience. Checked prices today. Can still find cheap flights but can't wait much longer. Tickets are brutal after December 11th. How long to stay there... So. Need to focus on something else. It's a beautiful day outside. We are in a pattern of cool sunny days (10-15º) with frosty nights (0 to -3º). It's great for sleeping, walking, enjoying life. Maybe I should just make a checklist. I have much to do and although I do something every day I don't feel like I'm making any progress. If nothing else... I should pack for my next trip! |
| ...what day is today? me: I thought Friday was the 19th. It wasn't. I thought today was a Baha'i Holy Day for the Birthday of Baha'u'llah. It wasn't (that's November 12th). However it is the Birthday of The Bab, another Holy Day. Ah... there's a special prayer for both. Found it. Today was absolutely lovely. Blue skies and crisp autumn air. I walked along the river and visited the dog park taking photos along the way there and back. Not all the trees have turned yet but some are bare. Yesterday was beautiful too, albeit a tad cool. I went to the football game where the home team Montana Griz played like a dead bear rug. With two minutes to go they blocked a field goal then marched the whole way down the field. 1st and goal at the 2. Then 2nd and goal, then 3rd and goal. A floater at 4th and goal tied the score with 12 seconds left. In OT (over-time) they scored a touchdown to lead then intercepted a pass to seal it. Griz win 21-14 over the Mustangs of California Polytechnical U (aka Cal Poly). A win means happy drunks instead of sad or angry ones. I don't partake. If I did I could use that as an excuse for being confused. But... no such luck. I'm naturally confused, thank-you.  |
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