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24.2.11

padre

Escribí esta canción para mi padre cuando se estaba muriendo.
A menudo me pidió que le cantan a él cuando sentía miedo o de dolor.
Me sentaba en la otra habitación, jugando con el canto piano, y él de alguna manera encontrar la paz en esta canción.
Es muy especial para mí.
All is well
with my soul
when perfections not a goal
All is well
All is well
with my soul.m
When I'm high
when I'm low
I just let go and not know
then All is well
All is well
with my soul.
It's like a boat I made out of a leaf, one day.
I climbed aboard
let the wind
carry me away.
Not knowing where I'd go
I just knew that it would be something
beautiful.
So just reach out
take my hand
theres no need for you to stand
All is well
All is well
with my soul
All is well
with my soul
when I learn to just let go
All is well
All is well
With my soul
 ~michelle 

21.2.11

growing roots


the hardest plant to root

was grown inside of me

the blossom of discovering

that inside

im always free.



the most difficult mountain i climbed

i did with one strong leg

reflected in its mountain stream

was a hill instead.



the saddest note I heard

once played inside of me

but silence overtook it

when i saw its song in me...

 ~michelle

unspoken


it is when a bird does flutter and all is lost behind the clutter
of words we spoke
and thoughts we tossed
the sea of doubt
the comfort of loss
behind the glow of safety we play
like children pretending when lost in a day
but i saw what you didn't want to say
and its clinched in my hand
released when i lay
  ~michelle
isolation-rainy windows-rock hunting- stick carving- mobile making-picture jumping- secrets-cedar wood, sandalwood, lavender, lemongrass, broken green leaves and baby twigs- open skies that fill my belly- duality- paths that never cross- the smell of knees- red wine, campfire tea-home roasted coffee, green smoothies, yellow delicious apples everyday, fever dreams- drinking from cantaloupes- medium format photography- renegade art- dirty knees- patches- stripes-plaster- diy- reality and daydreams switching places- digging clay- oscillating fans- dioramas- tree worlds- travel tree travelogues- carrots- memories of my father that crawl across the floor, up my arms and into my cheeks- captured images- captured thoughts on my nightstand-turtle homes- hopes- sweat from hard work- long bike rides and aching legs- brushing my teeth outside- dirty fingernails- ink on my hands- unfiltered thoughts- originality- creating from beginnings-mint fields in mist- empty canvases,tubes of paint and endless nights- screaming songs into the wind- sharing secrets with birds- puddles, creeks, streams, hidden worlds behind waterfalls- feather tattoos-looking through paper towel rolls- defying Murphy and his law- green and blue- tearing out pictures- "Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now."(bob dylan)- "I have tried in my way to be free"(leonard cohen)... knowing these words to my very core.- learning-exploring-learning-exploring-slowly moving and watching and experiencing all fully and within the ritual, catching my reflection as a little girl...