with blue

I love seeing laundry in air.
In Hong Kong, it hangs out
in so many places, and today, 
mine has been under 
a very blue warm sky.
Photo: Along a lane, Hanoi, Vietnam

attend

Over the last few days,
I have been attending
more to birds, 
and I thank them.
Photo: A bird in New Zealand

home now, home soon

Tonight I leave on a jet plane
from one home to another.
Love everywhere.
Photo: Fun in the bath, New Zealand

see, play

As I said yesterday, 
use and play...
Photo: Mirror, New Zealand

playing

I have always loved to use things 
differently, playfully. 
Photo: Seat for a van, New Zealand

distance to self

I once wrote in a poem that 'I take a bath 
when the distance to myself gets too far' 
but I love a bath anytime, and just 
last night, I bathed.
Photo: Our home, New Zealand

love into the body

And now, we bring all the life and colo(u)r 
and love into our bodies.
Photo: At our table, New Zealand

food grown, food cooked

Yesterday, picked.
Today, to be cooked.
Photo: parsnip, carrot, potato...

friends and food

Today three friends who live on islands 
gave me food grown on, in, the land. 
Jackfruit, tomato, lettuce, carrot. 
And I think of Janet Frame 
and her is-land, was-land.
Photo: Food from our garden, New Zealand

soon

The people who were married on this day
of plenty of food and love and red
will soon have a child, and we
send very healthy blessings.
Photo: Plate at J and J wedding, USA

exit

For the next couple of days, I will
disconnect from the city a bit
and be with air, light, wind, trees. 
Photo: Our bathroom

pink and purple

I do not especially gravitate to the colo(u)rs pink and purple, and I especially do not like the prissy pastel versions, which seem to wilt. 
But how I love the pink receptacle placed here near the pyramids, and today, the gentle purple slate seen in the hills of Hong Kong.
Photo: Giza, Egypt

I'm not kidding

I love this quote, the "I'm not kidding" and the "making life more bearable" and the "Do it as well as you possibly can" and the line drawing, and today, as I talk about my art with an audience at a bookstore, I will remember this.
Photo/text: Received on Facebook

in a land I cannot

Today I walked around this
corner, in a land
whose words I 
cannot read. 
Yet a land I know.
Photo: Tai Hang, Hong Kong