29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
from Color by Christina Rossetti
A pear – my favorite shape of late.
Watercolor © Joan Currie
23 Wednesday Nov 2011
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© Joan Currie
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty? And yet it all seems limitless.
from The Sheltering Sky movie, based on the book by Paul Bowles
Thanksgiving is almost upon us – savor every sweet moment of it.
05 Saturday Nov 2011
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© Joan Currie – Watercolor
And who do you think you are
Running ’round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
from Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri
He kept only my heart.
31 Monday Oct 2011
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Did I say that I need you?
Did I saw that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t I’m a fool you see
No one knows this more than me.
Just Breathe by Pearl Jam
I can’t let you go!
28 Friday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright?
U2
My guardian angel in the corner of the room.
18 Tuesday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
from The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The spirits of the dead swirled all around me on my walk today.
11 Tuesday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
I follow the scent of a woman
Melon heavy
Ripe with joy
Inspiring me
To rip great holes in the night
So the sun blasts through
by Rita Mae Brown – Dancing the Shout to the True Gospel
The gourds, rather than the pumpkins, inspire me this autumn.
09 Sunday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. – Steve Jobs
A Post-it quilt of affection for Steve Jobs grows on both front windows of the first Apple store in Palo Alto, California.
© Joan Currie
08 Saturday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
The spray reached out and sucked her in
It was hardly a noticed thing
That Joan was there and is not now
(Oh go and tell young Featherstonehaugh)
Gone away, gone away
All alone.
Stevie Smith
This lonely shoe on the beach brought to mind the poem, Deeply Morbid. I was a little disturbed that the protagonist and I share the same name.
04 Tuesday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Food from the sea – a heaping serving of kelp noodles.
Satin & Sand 