Weekly Poem: "Uluru (Ayers Rock)"

Uluru (Ayers Rock)

I want to dance your mountain

I don’t dance anymore

I would sing your mountain

low-slung red rock formation

I don’t sing anymore

I would draw the mountain

like sunrise bleeding

over the Northern Territories

but I don’t draw anymore

I would write a poem about it

scrubby trees frame mountain

in photo in travel brochure

but I don’t write anymore

I want to dance your mountain

© Anne Westlund

Day 67

Day 67 of 100 Happy Days... today I cut out 2 sets of skirt pieces...! Will sew them up on another day...

Day 66

Day 66 of 100 Happy Days... the neighbor's daisies...

Day 65

Day 65 of 100 Happy Days... doodles I did at Friday's Coffee Klatch...

Day 64

Day 64 of 100 Happy Days... hot water... always a good thing... (not my photo)...

Day 63

Day 63 of 100 Happy Days... Mom gave me a Hershey bar... chocolate! (not my photo)...

Day 62B

Day 62B of 100 Happy Days...second post for today... we had some visitors tonight... bucks!

Day 62A

Day 62A of 100 Happy Days... cornbread and beans and weenies for dinner... yay!

Day 61

Day 61 of 100 Happy Days... a carnation on my dresser...

Day 60

Day 60 of 100 Happy Days... set up for a tea party at our place..

Day 59

Day 59 of 100 Happy Days... me and Mom spent time with a friend who lives near Perkins Pond in Ocean Shores... lovely...

Letter #54

Hi Dad,

I'd like to say things have changed since I last wrote to you, but they haven't changed much at all.  Or maybe it's me that hasn't changed.  Or maybe I have.  I'm starting to appreciate my simple life more since I have been doing the 100 Days of Happy.  So that's good. 

I've been doing a little crocheting and cross-stitching lately.  Today I worked on this project:

It's going to be a Celtic design when it's all done.

I sent S. a little package in the mail.  I went a little overboard.  I think I might send care packages to different people every couple months or so.  I made up a list of 6 people, online and offline friends.  I'm thinking about getting some more pictures from Clark Photos to send to people.

I had a couple of brain fog days, but I'm feeling better today.

Love you!

Anne

Day 58

Day 58 of 100 Happy Days... carnations...

Day 57

Day 57 of 100 Happy Days... went to the doctor... A1C is 6.6!!!  :)

Day 56

Day 56 of 100 Happy Days... watching my cat chase a little grey mouse (that she caught once already) around Mom's car tires... It was still very much alive! I hope it got away... we had to leave... so the fate of the mouse is a mystery...

Day 55

Day 55 of 100 Happy Days... "Like a Stone" by Audioslave... I love this song...

Day 54

Day 54 of 100 Happy Days... my brother fixed my toilet... this one!... woot!....

Day 53

Day 53 of 100 Happy Days... I got a new iron... I'm not some kind of domestic goddess...:) ... it's for sewing... having unwrinkled clothes is a bonus!

Day 52

Day 52 of 100 Happy Days... 6 (new to me) books I found at the Ocean Shores Public Library book sale... for 50 cents each...

Day 51

Day 51 of 100 Happy Days... new headbands... the kind that actually stay on my head!... $3 at Ross...

Day 50

Day 50 of 100 Happy Days... halfway there!... hung out with my writer friends at the Writers Support Group in Ocean Shores tonight... a teenage girl (Natalie) read her short story... start 'em young!

Day 49

Day 49 of 100 Happy Days... some of my friends are in my computer... it's too awkward to hug... here is how I find you guys... I go to this page first...

Day 48

Day 48 of 100 Days of Happy... Degas Dancers on my bedroom wall...

Day 47

Day 47 of 100 Happy Days... at the Lucky Dragon with Janet Evans... for lunch today... mmmmmmm!

Day 46

Day 46 of 100 Happy Days... Urban Threads calender I printed out.. JUNE!

Day 45

Day 45 of 100 Happy Days... Sunshine!... and shadows too...

Day 44

Day 44 of 100 Happy Days... a candle in the window...

Day 43

Day 43 of 100 Happy Days..."Oh, L'amour" and "Ship of Fools"... songs off this album by Erasure...

Day 42

Day 42 of 100 Happy Days... Stuffies!... Introducing Jello the Elephant... he goes on trips with me... now you know!

Weekly Poem: "Self"

Self

If it weren’t for selfies,

how would I know what

I look like?

For years, seen through other cameras,

lenses, eyes.

Now I snap a close-up,

wrinkles like fine webs

next to my eyes, skin too pale

and too red at the same time,

auburn hair fading into grey wire

at the temples.

That’s me, I think.

That’s me.

© Anne Westlund

prompt:  use a new(er) word

Letter #53

Hi Dad,


How's it going?  Moot point.  Seriously.  I've been reading about the maze that is publishing these days.  Or maybe the contracts are a maze.  We missed the boat on that one.  Should have done a little reading, hired a lawyer, all of the above.  Live and learn.  The "girls" are trying to rewrite the Book of Love.  I know you know what I'm talking about, even if nobody else does.  Cause you're my dad.  You always "got" me, even when I wasn't making sense.  Enough of that.

Mom's watching reruns.  The lawyer show and the psychic one.  Now, the news.  And reading the newspaper.  Hmmmm, Pink Floyd is on TV now.  Chris is recording a concert on Mom's TV.  It's actually my TV.  I just don't watch it much.  I know which ones are reruns and which ones aren't.  But I don't watch much TV.  That's because the computer area looks out over the living room.  So when I'm listening to music on my headphones, I still know what's on.  Understand?

random photo:

Not much has really changed around here.  My attitude has changed a little.  There's more hope, at least on my part.  Everything else is pretty much the same.

I still miss you.

Sleep well...

LOVE

Anne

Day 41

Day 41 of 100 Happy Days... running out of happy stuff ... :) but there's always clean clothes fresh out of the dryer... folded even!

Day 40

Day 40 of 100 Happy Days... my friend Janet visited me today... spent a couple hours at our house...