lingering smoke

"I am a girl, soon, a woman …

I come from the Earth,
sent to guard the kindness of the Mother.
I run where my people run
smelling the sweet grasses
where now city's stand.

I see the world in a different eye
colors are all over...the rhythm of lifes breath.
I dance where the wolves dance
lingering in the moonlight wishing on stars.
I put down the colors of perception
so others may see the beauty.

I walk with a light touch, hoping all will.
I teach the right to guard against wrong.
I am a warrior, a sleeper until awakened
to Guard the Earth".

*coppertrees"

angel from montgomery

"I am an old woman
named after my mother
my old man is another
child who's grown old

If dreams were thunder
lightning was desire
this old house it would've burned down
a long time ago

Make me an angel
that flies from montgomery
make me a poster
of an old rodeo
just give me one thing
that i can hold on to
to believe in this livin'
is just a hard way to go

When i was a young girl
I had me a cowboy
wasn't much to look at
just a free ramblin' man
That was a long time ago
no matter how hard i tried
the years just rolled by
like a broken down damn

Make me an angel
that flies from montgomery
make me a poster
Of an old rodeo
just give me one thing
that i can hold on to
to believe in this livin'
is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
i ain't done nothing since i woke up today
but how the hell can a person
go to work in the morning
and come home in the evening
and have nothing to say

Make me an angel
that flies from montgomery
make me a poster
of an old rodeo
just give me one thing
that i can hold on to
to believe in this livin'
is just a hard way to go".


*Bonnie Raitt*

some day. . .

"Some day the wind will change
and you will see me clearly
One day these dreams of mine

will bring me to my time
Some day I will become

what I am meant to be coming to
One day

but that's a million some days

from today

Lately the sunshine

makes a different shape around
Lately my music

has a different sound to show me
Lately I ask questions

of the world but no one is listening
Tell me when I go to sleep

what will the morning bring me?

Falling,
falling,
falling,
or am I flying?
Flying,
flying,
flying,
or am I falling?"


~nitin sawhney + aqualung

I bet. . .

oil pastel by Jabelico


"I heard Jesus... he drinks wine
well, I bet we'd get along just fine
he can calm a storm
and heal the blind
and I bet
he'd understand a heart like mine".

*Miranda Lambert*

If I Wanted Someone

"like the memory from your mother’s house
from before you got too old
like the feeling from a photograph
before it’s meanings all got told
the words I say can be silver,
but what’s left unsaid can be gold
so get to know me once I go away

maybe ‘cause I come
from such an empty-hearted town
or maybe ‘cause some love of mine
had really let me down
but the only time I am lonely
is when others are around
I just never end up knowing what to say

if I wanted someone to clean me up,
I’d find myself a maid
if I wanted someone to spend my money,
I wouldn’t need to get paid
if I wanted someone to understand me,
I’d have so much more to say
I want you to make the days move easy

I took everything I thought
from what it means to be a man
we need words to be put
to what we do not understand
while you lean into the echoes
and you do not raise a hand
oh woman, help me see it like it is

if I wanted someone to cut me down,
I’d have handed you the blade
I want you to make the days move easy
I just want you to make the days move easy"...

bE bRaVe

The Barr Brothers

THE BARR BROTHERS - Ooh, Belle from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

lovely fool

let it go

oil pastel by jabelico

~If you wanna fly,
you got to give up
that shit that
weighs you down.~

Toni Morrison

glitter

oil pastel by jabelico

"When my mind swallows me whole
with it’s mocking ‘how do you do?’
I go to my corner of silence
and hold glitter in my hand
to throw into the sky,

in the hope that it might

show freedom to me in tears

When my heart aches with a sadness
for my world that has gone mad
I climb into a moment of respite
and let a shining song wash over me
so in the sparkling I might see

a glimmer of hope in today

Today I found myself breathing
hot and dry air on my scar
and saw the rusted chains
that keeps me captive to the ground
so I reach in,

but not a sound

my glitter, there is none".