nativekee

she makes some good points...

2010-01-01T16:07:00.000-05:00

& i love the idea of writing advice to oneself....

Advice to Myself

Leave the dishes.

Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator

and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor.

Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster.

Throw the cracked bowl out and don't patch the cup.

Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins.

Don't even sew on a button.

Let the wind have its way, then the earth

that invades as dust and then the dead

foaming up in gray rolls underneath the couch.

Talk to them. Tell them they are welcome.

Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzles

or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry

who uses whose toothbrush or if anything

matches, at all.

Except one word to another. Or a thought.

Pursue the authentic-decide first

what is authentic,

then go after it with all your heart.

Your heart, that place

you don't even think of cleaning out.

That closet stuffed with savage mementos.

Don't sort the paper clips from screws from saved baby teeth

or worry if we're all eating cereal for dinner

again. Don't answer the telephone, ever,

or weep over anything at all that breaks.

Pink molds will grow within those sealed cartons

in the refrigerator. Accept new forms of life

and talk to the dead

who drift in though the screened windows, who collect

patiently on the tops of food jars and books.

Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything

except what destroys

the insulation between yourself and your experience

or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters

this ruse you call necessity.

-Louise Erdrich

gots my collard greens + black eyed peas ready for tomorrow!

2009-12-31T18:10:00.002-05:00

Great Story in the NYTimes...
Brooklyn's Flavor Route to the South

"..holiday time... when the Southern diaspora of New York really longs for home.."

2009-12-31T17:16:00.000-05:00

wishing you all a glorious beginning to a new year, a new decade.

we have so much power to create our world!

choose your heart's greatest desires & let's celebrate them in this 2010!

wishing you love, light & joy for 2010!!

lots of love,

kee

YSL Africa

2009-12-29T21:29:00.000-05:00

source unknown.

jason wyche.

2009-12-29T17:48:00.000-05:00

love these shots from jason's recent trip to ethiopia.

african dreams.

2009-12-29T17:13:00.000-05:00

le petit prince.....

2009-12-29T11:15:00.000-05:00

"Telling these memories is so painful for me. It’s already been six years since my friend went away, taking his sheep with him. If I try to describe him here, it’s so I won’t forget him. It’s sad to forget a friend."

The Little Prince.. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

sending out a lil love to a lost friend.

lindsey adelman diy.

2009-12-28T17:26:00.001-05:00

if i can find some "free time" i may just make THIS. full instructions & resources provided. that's pretty nice. thanks, lindsey, for breaking it down. if anyone has made their own, i would love to know what you think!

scenes from the holiday week...

2009-12-28T12:47:00.000-05:00

love.. the will of a plant to survive!

2009-12-27T21:24:00.000-05:00

San Francisco plant thought extinct for nearly 70 years found near Golden Gate
AP - SAN FRANCISCO
A San Francisco native plant thought extinct by botanists has been discovered near the Golden Gate Bridge.
The last, wild Franciscan Manzanita was believed to have perished in the 1940s when the city cemeteries where it grew were moved south to allow for neighborhood expansion.
But when construction crews recently cleared eucalyptus trees in the city's Presidio area, it exposed the only specimen known to exist in the wild.
Botanist Daniel Gluesenkamp spotted the manzanita shrub as he drove over the Golden Gate Bridge. He later visited the site to confirm his sighting — the first in nearly 70 years.
The Wild Equity Institute has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the plant under the Endangered Species Act.
found via The Arm.

andrew zuckerman

2009-12-27T16:44:00.002-05:00

i have spent the last hour going through each photo one by one.
along with their corresponding bird calls. check out this amazing work by andrew zuckerman- delving in to a vast array of birds... their beauty, their calls, their species....

go see the bison in the snow.

2009-12-23T20:50:00.001-05:00

image.

heading upstate, one of my fave views on the drive...

set the table.

2009-12-23T16:30:00.002-05:00

link unknown.

feeling festive.

2009-12-23T16:29:00.000-05:00

from the linkless world of tumblr.

2009-12-22T22:30:00.000-05:00

Maia Chavez Larkin for Loup Charmant...

2009-12-22T20:54:00.001-05:00

LOVE what Maia Chavez Larkin created for Loup Charmant!

The Dancing Tree...

2009-12-19T22:14:00.000-05:00

thanks Marla, for sending this. i love her!

photo from Bioneers.

island time.

2009-12-16T23:57:00.002-05:00

our view

words to live by....

love heather's inspiration board.

2009-12-16T23:46:00.000-05:00

more.

& here.

cubano.

2009-12-16T23:42:00.000-05:00

tumblr image. no source provided.

happy day.

2009-12-16T23:38:00.000-05:00

oh linda.

bioluminescence.

2009-12-14T22:55:00.001-05:00

image.

we kayaked out & swam in the world's largest concentration of dinoflagellates, in puerto rico's mosquito bay.
if you've never seen them, they sparkle & make the water glow.

so where were we?

2009-12-14T19:30:00.002-05:00

we were off to the islands for some tropical heat & a lovely gathering to celebrate sue & justin's nuptials.

several great moments over the long weekend.
here's one.

the cessna island hoppper. puddle jumper. tiny plane.
6 people. everyone's weight is assessed & then each is pointed to his / her seat.
personal carry-ons are taken & stowed in the wings just before you climb in the the aircraft, which
is not much different than climbing in to an SUV.
& on the way back to San Juan, I got to play co- pilot. loved the guys from cape air.

fantastic views! amazing rainbow, rolling hills & aqua seas. i could see one farmer's cattle going out to pasture in a single file line through a path to an open gate.
you're flying so low you can read signs once in the city.
pretty fantastic.

my own camera battery was dead, but i found these great shots thanks to the world wide web.

just back to ny &...

2009-12-14T19:28:00.000-05:00

now that winter is fully upon us, all i can think is inuit layers!

(--maybe with a festive party dress underneath & a puppy on my back ;) --)

nytimes. you MUST see this whole story!

bottom photos by richard harrington.

Gentleman of Bacongo, I need you!

2009-12-06T22:12:00.001-05:00

Africa hot, I like am so
I know what to wear but my friends don't know
Him put him socks, him put him shoe
Him put him pant, him put him singlet
Him put him trouser, him put him shirt
Him put him tie, him put him coat
Him come cover all with him hat
Him be gentleman
Him go sweat all over
Him go faint right down
Him go smell like shit
Him go piss for body, him no go know
Me I no be gentleman like that

I no be gentleman at all no.
--Fela Anikulapo Kuti

gots ta get it.