Hello Old Friends and New Readers, 2024

Just over two years ago my house burned down in the Marshall Fire. A lot of your homes burned down. Many animals died. Two humans died. A neighborhood died. And apparently I let my wordpress site die, but we escaped with our cat, a change of socks and underwear, our so-called important papers, our winter boots and coats, and innumerable friends and strangers who helped us recover–our gratitude can’t ever be spoken strongly enough. But I did take one journal and I kept writing in it, and a book is being born as we speak–a troublesome birth, but all births have quite a bit of drama involved I know from experience, literal and metaphorical. So I begin again, just past solstice 2023. Oh, I also learned that many journals won’t accept poems that have been on social media including wordpress. So no poems here except through links. Welcome back, I hope you’ll welcome me back as we together wake and find a little light floating like a raft we swim up to reach.