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Footprints

Today it snows. After having temps in the mid fifties for days, and an all night rain, so that I rise early in gray listening to rain in the downspouts. That trickling as others sleep still. Jackson 14 and Lisa my love. In their own dreams while I coffee it. Sad down music going on the stereo.

But now this afternoon is filled with snow and ice crusts. A wet snow and heavy. Walking down the stairs in front of me are footprints in snow. Deep. Pressed down to pavement. Thin.

These are memories of someone who came before on a different earth. Memory of the snow which is never the same snow an instant later. But morphed, the memory remains....a bit.

blue sky

This morning, the day after snow, the sky is blue and bright as I look out the window sipping coffee. Branches lit against the sky. Whysteria vines crawl at the edge of the window. Wooden Buddha Smiling.

Finally

At last it snows. Its been days and days without sun. Rain and melt rain and melt. But now it is snowing and the beauty returns to the north coast. I drive home in the daylight with snow falling about me. I take the long way which is more off the beaten path, more country fields etc. It takes 10 minutes longer but this day is a treat.

black barren branches
turning white above the field
red tailed hawk

Thoughts to ponder

This is more a reminder to myself than anything else. I am contemplating two thoughts at the moment, which I hope will generate some more writing work.

1) The analogy between Ice and Mind. In particular, both hand how their work is to create change while retaining memory.

2) The naming and unnaming of things. The nature of names and labels and the acts of claiming and liberation, the acts of creating distance and separation between self and other throught the use of naming (here we can remember GOOK and many other names, EVIL DOOERS (god he even fails at being a facist).
    a) Naming of our landscape as a way of planting flags "Pikes Peak"
    b) Deterritorialization through thenames of watersheds (for example) rather than states or city names
    c) Naming through description rather than status (woman-that-makes-my-heart-quicken rather than using a term like MY-WIFE)