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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: "'heart's home'" "In Lagada, la vita" "Waterlily" "Boise City" "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" "Half-naked dreams? 'Getting the stain out of genes!" "Poems inspired by maps. Remember 1963?" FACES     PLACES            Kåre  Enga~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop The Fish |
| ... maybe. Me Today the high is 70. It will get warmer this week but the heat of summer is gone. Nights in the 40s. Bought potatoes at farmers' market. Plenty of melons. Getting ready for winter squash. Prices seem high but these are local farmers. Football season started today. I'm dressed in maroon and grey. No oomph but otherwise okay. Saw Gretel. Got a hug from Ingrid. Carly is back in town. Folks move away but it's hard to stay away. If my leg continues to be okay I might risk a long walk. Need to not gain weight. Walking helps. Two cups of coffee today, a cherry streudel, a fish taco. I'm eyeing the pumpkin pie... LOL. Spring is my favorite season, May my favorite month. Autumn and September come in second. The lack of extreme heat and smoke in the air should make this autumn enjoyable. |
| Payed my WDC annual membership. ME... Now... I need to fully use my membership! A promise I haven't kept the last two years. What would help: 1. A new light weight fast computer that has everything except the capacity to cook mac & cheese. 2a. Discipline. LOL. 2b. Internet at home... which isn't going to happen... so, discipline. 3. Read, write and interact more. 4. Put up new works and edit old ones. 5. Rather than use WDC for storage, use it to promote. A weak list of 5 but it's the best I can do today. Hey! I remembered to pay! That's enough for one day. Other snews? Went to the Peace Garden of One Thousand Buddhas yesterday. Joyce wanted to go so I went with her. Very beautiful time of year to travel. Lovely warm pleasant sunny day with wispy clouds. Great pics. Joyce made a ham and provolone sandwich with mustard without checking with me first... She guessed right on all three accounts. We ate on a bench in the sun. That would be my only concern on a hot day. Very little shade. I need shade in the heat. The gardens themselves have some small planted trees around them and the flowers inside are sun-loving. Not completed yet. Have 900 of the 1,000 statues necessary. When they have that they are inviting the Dalai Lama. Quite a Buddhist influence in Western Montana. The actual site is on the "reservation" of the Flathead Nation (Salish-Kootenai). It's in the Jocko Valley. Open flat lands surrounded by short-grass and ponderosa pine clad mountains. Very peaceful. 511.895 |
| ME: Well, first there was the frenetic week of editing and posting almost 300 photos at facebook. Then last week my left leg (the former "good" one) lay me low. Pain! No swelling or bruising but with my history of blood clots... My appointment is 9/9. On Wednesday last I went to the Roxy to watch the French film Stranger at the Lake... L'inconnu du lac (2013) ...a murder thriller. Hitchcockian in some ways. Mixed emotions as to what worked or didn't. Really liked Pierre Deladonchamps as Franck and Patrick d'Assumçao as Henri. Saturday I went with Joyce to the Vaudeville show in Phillipsburg. Extremely well done. I was impressed with Thain Bertin and how he sang "Figaro". Also loved the duet of "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" with Reid Reimers in 7 inch heels pirouetting in a pink frilly dress and pink parasol. He's tall to begin with! With heels easily over 7'. I did get to connect with Nick who begins Law school this week. Gave him the suits I've saved for him; one less item on my check list. On my list: phone issues remain. Must get rid of phone. Did call my mother and aunt though. Keeping in touch is important. The weather was rainy and cool, even cold, for a few days. Now summer will return for a brief run. Fire Season is over... thank God. I'll be able to go outside and breathe this autumn. September forecast is colder than normal but this is Western Montana and we get caught between NW monsoons (think Oregon and Washington) and Canadian wintry blasts. Hard to say which we'll get. If we are on the line there will be snow in the mountains... there has already been some north and east of here. The break in the heat meant that my room finally cooled down and I even got to wear pajamas! 51,865 |
| Slogging and dreaming. Slogging through the daily routines. It's been on the hot side and my place does not cool off until after midnight. But... I'm doing okay. Dreaming. As in, armchair planning of trips. Japan is on my list. Eastern Europe is waiting for a look-see and Senegal must not be forgotten! Much more relaxing than the actual trip. Being interested seems to make me more interesting as well. Ran into a young man from Japan yestereve. I actually was able to have a conversation about where I'd like to go and the type of places I'd like to stay (guest houses - minshuku and ryokan - inns). He showed me how to approach a place, take off shoes and then step up, turn around, stoop and turn shoes around pointing out.  Never any real news on the personal level. I stay where it's cool and don't overdo it. Hardly exciting but August was always my month to sit and read. Not my favorite month at all. September however...  |
| Reading up on Japan. Flights are $1,200 plus. To Osaka. Daily costs would run $100 - 150. I managed on less than $100 in Norway so I just might be able to pull it off. March may be cheapest for me. Beginning with plum blossoms and ending with cherries. Fighting with my Samsung tablet and Skype... so I won't dither. I won't be going anywhere too soon. Montana is a welcome vacation. ...As long as I can find a/c on the hottest days. LOL 51.762 |
| I took the on-line "What famous novel are you?" test and came up P&P. Ack... I'd just finished reading it. Many of my friends were coming up "To Kill A Mockingbird". And if you are a crusader that makes perfect sense! I also feel for injustice... just not as keenly. I am capable (at my better moments) of seeing the other side. But then,,, so was Atticus. I did like Eliza in P&P. More piss and vinegar than sweet Jane and not silly like Lydia. She and Darcy made a good match... or at least, an interesting one. The dysfunction of her parents was more realistic though. ME: I know I should start planning my next trip. It really takes time to get it right. Last trip was too last minute and a plan B was not in place when I needed it most. I read a bit about Japan (the Alps) last night. Need to resurrect my other past dreams as well. Need to check plane prices so I'm not too shocked when the time comes. Until then... might just stay home and chill. Get back into a routine and focus on other issues that get pushed to the side when traveling. Maybe being more practical (with eyes open) like Eliza would help! 51,728 |
| Read the book on my tablet. About the book: 1. Obviously written in and written about a different time and place. 2. A bit facile with relationships but then maybe that's how society was structured and arrangements were made. 3. Each of the three girls gets a husband just like her in temperament? Bravo and... ouch. Love the Darcys. 4. In some ways the parents are more real. Mismatches are common in the real world. 5. The speech patterns are quaint at times. I found it a pleasant read and understand now why it was so popular and remains so. There is enough tension to keep it interesting. For nowaday readers there's also that window into a former time. Are the English still that way? Hmm... About reading it on a tablet. 1. Yes. 2. I was okay with how it looked on the page. I understand it can be manipulated for font size, et cetera. A nice feature. 3. It was free! 4. So, I need to load other free items. Hopefully a thesaurus and a language dictionary. Easier to lug the tablet around than books. 5. I can see how it would be easy to read multiple books at the same time. ME: I'm wearing orange today. Yep. Yesterday was yellow. I'm reading and getting back into writing and have thousands of photos to edit and post. I've seen friends and one dear friend will be back in town soon. Joyce got me out of town on Saturday. That was good in spite of my not feeling 100% (my lower back). I'm surviving the heat. About 90º during the day and about 55º in the early morning. Dry. I know where to find air-conditioned cool if I need it. My mood has improved but it still needs work. 51.716 |
| I'm glad I wrote what I did yesterday. Today I received a facebook message that clarified a particular situation. Now that the air is clear... What I wrote still stands. Hard to be friends with people who do not have the same concept of a friendship or any similar relationship. When I do go back to Costa Rica I'll have to explain to my "friends" what that word means to me personally. First, I'll need to write an article explaining this to ME! And to others. Cultural and personal barriers can be overcome with understanding. But, oh the pain... When I moved to Montana six years ago (that long?) I told some people that I don't have friends. Hurt a few... But in some ways it was true back then and to an extent still is. Friendship is a precious commodity. And like a fine wine must be chosen and aged properly. Maybe I'll just stick to grape juice. |
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