Virginia Breeze and the Chamber of Commerce
, originally uploaded by Davidlind.
Your blogging friend has been asked to do the photos for a Visitor’s Guide published by the Chamber of Commerce in this area.
How about that? And it’s a perfect time of year to take some photos of the outdoors with the leaves just starting to seriously turn different colors.
This publication will go out to thousands of people in the area and it will include a bio of the photographer. So I will be taking a lot of photos in the next few weeks. And there should be some photos of Heaven being published soon because that’s where I will be.
This has also got me thinking about publishing a book of poems and photos using Amazon.com. I’m a little late for this Christmas but we will see.
First things first and the Visitors Guide.
I will let you know how it goes.
Also a new edition of Wordpress has come out today. It offers a couple of security fixes so it’s probably a good idea to “get er done”. And prior to that . . . Today would be a good day to BACK UP the blog. In fact I am going to do it right now and suggest you might want to do it too.
I Woke Up This Morning And Went Here/ A Valentine Song/ Homeless In America
, originally uploaded by Davidlind.
We are back in Richmond tonight. Here’s a photo from this morning. I woke up about 4:30 and the person next to me was still sleeping. I slipped out and walked down to the beach. Nothing was on my mind. I was blank. And I was watching this ship on the horizon. After awhile it reached a point where the horizon started to glow a little bit and I thought “this must be where the sun is going to arrive”.
And then the ship burst into flame. Or so it seemed.
This photo is so dark. I tried to lighten it up. But nothing works. This is the way the camera felt things were at this moment. Does it seem ill-formed to you?
Time passed and I found other things to shoot. What is a good way to describe what you are doing when you take a picture? Shoot seems too much like NRA material.
There was a large woman sleeping in the sand. She had been there the day before. Later when the sun arrived she was there wrapped in her black clothing smoking a cigarette. Someone started talking about a beached whale.
I didn’t find this particularly funny. What is it like to spend your day lying in the sand? Do you talk to the sand? Do you pray to the sky?
I wanted to take her photo. But I didn’t want to invade her privacy. Everyone in the photos I took today saw her there. Nobody spoke to her. She was in a separate world. A separate universe. And I couldn’t take anything from her. So no photos.
After awhile I returned to the sky where we live. I returned to the bed that catches the breezes as they enter the room from the balcony. And I pulled the clean sheet up over my shoulder to evade the chill. My brain settled into a dream . And the woman next to me pressed her body against my back.
And the beach below received the waves and held the spirit of a large woman in a small nest.
Perhaps I will meet her in my dream. Because in the light of day the gulf is too wide and I find it too difficult to communicate with her.
Naked In Eden Blog/ Robin Easton
My good friend Robin at Naked In Eden : Ancient Memories in the Australian Rainforest wrote this about Virginia Breeze and its disorganized captain:
VIRGINIA BREEZE: http://davidnotes.com David’s blog has some of the most beautiful and cherished poetry I’ve read in a long time. It has moved me to tears on more than one occasion. If you enjoy heartfelt honest sentiments that speak of the core issues of our lives then grab a cup of tea, slow down and read some of David’s poems. They are written by someone who feels deeply and has an open heart. You will go away feeling like you know him. They are easy to understand and are mated with beautiful photos. My post this month was inspired by David’s poetry. His writing sets me free and encourages me to be authentic. He also writes about a variety of topics I find interesting, warm, real (and sometimes funny).
You can’t ask for anything better than this in the way of endorsements or morale building moments can you?
Robin is a treasure. Every once in a long while you meet somebody who you feel close to immediately and Robin is one of those people. There is a long list of readers who have fallen under her spell and I am one of them. Her writing is irresistible and she is funny, entertaining and brave.
That last quality I find very admirable. This fine lady lived in a rain forest and wrote a book about her life. Doing those kind of things requires courage.
If we are all unique then Robin is not afraid to share that uniqueness with the world. Why write a personal blog if you are not going to share something that your reader will not be able to read anywhere else? That’s my opinion about blogging and I find that Robin is the perfect example of somebody who does this extremely well.
I hope and pray she will always have time to stop by here for a few moments because I have grown very attached to her in a very short time. She motivates me to continue trying to become a better writer.
I hope you will take time to get to know her too. You won’t be sorry. I promise.
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Have you met someone while blogging you made you feel this way?
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Enjoying This Beautiful Weather?
Today is one of those top ten days of the year you learn to appreciate as you get older. There is no humidity and a nice cool breeze. And there are huge, fluffy white clouds up in the sky that don’t ever seem to obscure the sun.
And I am down here pretending I have landed on another planet.
It’s easy to do on a day like this. If you look at the wonderful sky for awhile it tends to make you forget all the mess that is down here. You could become a citizen of the planet Blugulla for example (pronounced blug’-you-la).
I myself am a star ship captain who is on leave after taking a wrong turn in the Constellation Constipurnace (pronounced consti-purn’-ace), I was busy talking to one of the crew when I should have been following the advanced GPS guidance system (The G is for Galactic not Global).
It should have warned me but i turned it off earlier because it gives off this creepy glow in the dark.
Blugulla is a lovely place because they have moved everything underground except for the trees, plants, lakes and buildings made entirely of glass.
It’s very strong glass. And it offers very little privacy. But nobody seems to care and if they did it really wouldn’t be a problem because there are giant plants surrounding every building. It’s an ordinance. Community planning is very important here.
And we get around on these little vehicles that fly without a sound through the air and up to the top of our many mountain ranges without a problem if we want to go there.
What a view.
So I am having a wonderful day and just wanted to share. I hope that some of this fine weather has turned up in your area.
And so now I must go. I have CARE packages for several earthlings who were picked up and brought back here as part of a foreign exchange program. I wish some of them would stop whining and enjoy the program. They may think they want to go home.
But when they do go home they will kick themselves for not enjoying all of this while they had the chance.
