Monthly Archives: November 2010

Delores Ekberg and
Heidi Mordhorst

Delores Ekberg and
Heidi Mordhorst

Water Becomes You This water coming into your hands, it’s old—older than today, older than you are, older than the oldest people you know. This water has been around: playing over …

 

Doug Pugh and Delores Ekberg

Doug Pugh and Delores Ekberg

Delores Ekberg Inspiration piece Doug Pugh Response Haitch Two Ohhhhh Simmer sunlight over last Winter’s snow Or Wring rainbow into Dilute solution of H²0 Add momentum and a frisson of gravity Churl endlessly Over rocks worn slipper …

 

Delores Ekberg and Doug Pugh

Delores Ekberg and Doug Pugh

Delores Ekberg Response High plains drifter By Doug Pugh Inspiration piece Face to face on a high col nothing here except space, wind whipped grasses I could see in his eyes my reflection until he stamped, snorted for …

 

Dale Leffler and Delores Ekberg

Dale Leffler and Delores Ekberg

Delores Ekberg Inspiration piece Dale Leffler Response Let me in I’m sorry I didn’t answer the door I’m sorry I didn’t let your in my heart was raw and sore from past exposure …

 

MM Panas and JoAnn Moore

MM Panas and JoAnn Moore

DRIVING HWY 1 m.m. panas Inspiration Piece The Gift Cypress bow their crowns to the Pacific as fog ensconced hills make a wholly inept attempt to reach the sky. Still the …

 

Delores Jerry Eckberg and Dale Leffler

Delores Jerry Eckberg and Dale Leffler

Peace Response Picture by: Delores Jerry Eckberg Ordinary Heroism Spark   Inspirational Words by: Dale Leffler  Ordinary Heroism  So starts another day of ordinary heroism,  may I be tolerant of …

 

Jean Gordon and Amaryllis Holloway

Jean Gordon and Amaryllis Holloway

Jean Gordon There is hope in the beginning of a new day Response Giving  By: Amaryllis Holloway Inspiration piece So many in our community need assistance   The mother who is struggling to …

 

Amy Moffitt and
Mark Owen Martin

Amy Moffitt and
Mark Owen Martin

Mark Owen Martin Musical Montage ===> SingularityOboeCelloHarp (MP3 ) Inspiration Piece Dream By Amy Moffitt Response Waking up like coming up from the bottom of a river… the colors …

 

Grace Burns and Frank Gibson

Grace Burns and Frank Gibson

Frank Gibson Inspiration Piece Reincarnation by Grace Burns Response Writhing, kicking, scratching Torn membranes Shards of shell Isolation’s death throes Breaking free, bursting forth Promise of new life Promise of new potential Breathing in, breathing in Breathing in …

 

Alisa Laska and Elizabeth Wexler

Alisa Laska and Elizabeth Wexler

The smell of moxa wooden birds move above me healing has begun

 

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Val Bonney

Lisa Lipkind Leibow
and Val Bonney

Val Bonney The Black Dog Inspiration Piece THE BLACK DOG By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Response The Black Dog stood at attention before the new arrivals. He forced himself to bark three …

 

Edite Haberman and Anne Welch

Edite Haberman and Anne Welch

Edite Haberman – It’s a Girl/Poster Series #2 Response Once Upon a Dream – Anne Welch Inspiration piece: She stands tall She blinks once Once upon a time Once is all it …

 

Brian MacDonald and Ruth Baja Williams

Brian MacDonald and Ruth Baja Williams

Brian MacDonald response Ruth Baja Williams inspiration piece AFTER THE RAIN The rain last night rain has washed the garden clean each dusty blade of grass is once more green. Drops of …

 

Gwynne Mason and
Marla Deschenes

Gwynne Mason and
Marla Deschenes

Gwynne Mason Response Anicca Book, Handmade by Gwynne, all Papers, Handmade by Gwynne Marla Deschenes Inspiration October October closes its sweatered arms around me The crunch of falling leaves greet …

 

Frank Gibson and Lori B

Frank Gibson and Lori B

Frank Gibson Response morning smells like possibility. light crashes through the hall windows and i allow myself to stand, for one freezing moment in the dream i just left, running …

 

Frank Gibson and Grace Bird

Frank Gibson and Grace Bird

Frank Gibson Response The Dance   You gaze upon these trees of light with fear and fascination. You are drawn to their beauty, yet you dare not come any closer than the …

 

Frank Gibson and Greg Adkins

Frank Gibson and Greg Adkins

Frank Gibson They say the dam was washed out in a horrible rain during the early part of 1887. Never bothered to rebuild it. Nope, the …

 

Elizabeth Stelling and
Mark Owen Martin

Elizabeth Stelling and
Mark Owen Martin

Mark Owen Martin Music: Passepied Inspiration piece Feast of the Absent By Elizabeth Stelling Response If I were a counter of memory in the room of preparation housed for returning in …

 

Barbara Bever and
Mark Owen Martin

Barbara Bever and
Mark Owen Martin

Mark Owen Martin Carillon Inspiration piece The Enlightenment By Barbara Bever Response The soft light creeps through the cracks in the wooden shutter and falls gently upon the weathered face of …

 

Mark Owen Martin
and Elizabeth Stelling

Mark Owen Martin
and Elizabeth Stelling

Mark Owen Martin Musical montage ==> Texas Skies Response Elizabeth Stelling Inspiration piece Tiny white clouds dot big blue Texas skies like mesquite and tumbleweeds blowing along old highways- taking shape, …

 

Mark Owen Martin
and Barbara Bever

Mark Owen Martin
and Barbara Bever

(Image by Jane Hulstrunk) Mark Owen Martin Musical montage ==> Legacy Response Barbara Bever Inspiration piece I am from bagpipes and tartans, Bonnie hills and liquid lochs, Cherry pipe tobacco, and Blue-veined hands pumping …

 

Mark Owen Martin
and Amy Moffit

Mark Owen Martin
and Amy Moffit

Mark Owen Martin Musical montage ==> Ache Response Amy Moffit Inspiration piece No matter how many times I wipe it away the dust still returns… dancing down through the air, swirling sunstruck past …

 

Annie Welch and Edite Haberman

Annie Welch and Edite Haberman

Edite Haberman Orange Love Inspiration piece Annie Welch The Scenic Route* Response I don’t mind that she drives fast. Speed blurs lines between magic and mundane. * a septolet Note: All of the art, writing, and music on …

 

Charlotte Rauner and Isabel Levin

Charlotte Rauner and Isabel Levin

Isabel Levin– Multi Personality Inspiration Piece Response Charlotte Rauner Part 1 Am I red like fire, cruel did you make me? Am I blue and sad, upset did you make me? Am I an …

 

Joanna Lee and Sindee Ernst

Joanna Lee and Sindee Ernst

upon much reflection, Joanna Lee response Lightolier, Sindee Ernst inspiration piece I headed to my first year of college with an electric typewriter, a trunk full of clothing, and …