LIVING IN VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY

Living in voluntary simplicity
is a lot harder than you might think!




Like uncovering a lot of grimy dust
behind the stove
and a half dead spider
behind the big screen T.V. all because
of trying to throw away
old clothes and food stuff!




It's those layers of delusion
that keep going deeper and deeper
to sort out until
I'm down to the bare essentials.


Maybe I'll still be wearing a headband, though!

Today I could be a

Brown Recluse (as in spider) Diva!

I’m on the Eight Fold Path again.

I was on it back in 2007,

and lost my way. 

It’s letting go day, again

Five more things!

Beware of possessions which

wind up owning the owner.

I felt like Samson on Saturday

because I moved the stove and refrigerator

out from the wall.

Took a photo of this Tupelo Honey bottle

sitting on the stove

before I put it in the give-away bag.

I washed the white comforter for the last time,

it’s been on the waterbed

 20 years.

This is Shelby-Joan on the comforter

a good remembrance.

Someone at Good Will will be as

happy, as I have been, in finding

the perfect needed thing.

Already I feel lighter

This is my much underlined guide book.

I’m re-reading both of these.

I LOVE to stage photos!

Learning to live in voluntary simplicity

is a never ending process.

like Sisyphus rolling

that heavy stone back up the hill.

I have time to sketch a favorite book.

 And take a photo of the ever changing garden.

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Oops! I must catch up on the

Friday Writings

These words were from Maya Angelou’s book of poems:

dust, silence, sparrow, speak, unknown, bump

I wrote: 

A sparrow chirped outside the kitchen window,

dust was building up around their lives

she would rarely speak of things

to him, anymore,

and when she bumped her head

on the cupboard door,

oh!

the flood of tears

the flood of tears

endless,

unending 

She wrote:

she didn’t like to dust

he didn’t like to speak

he simply a bumping beat

on a quiet winter night

she merely a brown sparrow chattering

on a sunny summer morning.

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Is this a brown recluse spider?

It was on the white wicker bureau

just sitting there, barely moving behind the tv

I put it in an old medicine bottle.

stay tuned . . .

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