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Category Archives: voyage

The Secret Life of Bees

“It’s impossible to have two parents who refuse to love you.” Tonight I watched The Secret Life of Bees. Today I also wrote a note to my cousin. She’s warded in hospital for anorexia and I wish I knew how to open up her fourteen year-old heart. She’s like your regular teen, except she has [...]

His love and his love

This is Tomo. He is the life of our friend and landlord, Baowen. As I write, they are at the vet, where HY is serving as the life-saving vest if anything major is to happen. Not a major operation, just scaling, my friend. Our friend is not yet inconsolable, but he appears so, does he [...]

www.steviegeneralstore.com

We finally got down to registering a domain name for Stevie! We wanted Stevie General Store to be a home for Philomel Clothing and nothing more, but when you put something out there, it gets a life of its own. Like this guy. That’s what happened to Stevie. Update your bookmarks!

Versus

Dear you. Today I asked everyone this: of the two, a security guard or a gravedigger, which would you rather be? Signing off, The Woodpecker. P.S. Can you believe it is already the first day of June? I’ve done nothing except grow younger!!!

Red Strings

There is the heaven we enter through institutional grace and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing in the lowly puddle. Yellow, the first poem in Mary Oliver’s latest book Evidence. I once drew a picture, titled Red Strings. There are two parts to this picture, I always try to explain. But even I [...]