Peace (riding the tide),
Kevin
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Ten Steps: Sidewalk
This is the final individual video for my Ten Steps project, in which I have been creating one-minute videos, of ten steps, in different terrains. This playlist has all 12 videos, but I am also working on another way to present all of the videos together ….
Peace (stepping out),
Kevin
Noticing A Moment
Box fan flickr photo by elfsternberg shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
Over at NWPStudio, Tanya posted a writing prompt about noticing a single moment. Sort of like what we used to call “small stories” or even “Slice of Life” and I looked up from the prompt to notice this scene:
The box fan has a rhythm of its own. White noise, with patterned waves. It’s the panting of the dog sprawled out on the wood floor in front of the machine that gives the beat a hiccup. An irregular breath. A movement of body. A sigh. An ear shake. The fan continues on — it only knows to spin its forward motion — but the room’s soundtrack is unpredictable, as the dog takes another short solo, then fades into a sleepy background.
Peace (and sound),
Kevin
Ten Steps: Beach Edge
This video (the 11th) is part of a series of one-minute videos featuring ten steps in different places. The last few have been from last week’s vacation to Maine, giving the videos an ocean theme. I have one more video to go before I pull them all together. Watch the others here.
Peace (stepping out),
Kevin
Poetry: Fragile Earth
fragile earth flickr photo by duluoz cats shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
This is part of a summer-long endeavor to write longer poems and spend more time with revision. The prompts have come through the National Writing Project network.
Fragile Earth
Where is the line of wonder
for those of us whose lives
tumble beneath the weight
of a fractured world?Thunder beckons
this night, a flashing storm
of zig-zag jagged light,
a dangerous reckoning,
beautiful, eerily brightand safe in this house,
we huddle to see
a generational tree,
born before collective
generational memoryits branches broken:
splintered into unrecognizable
splintered beyond belief
splintered as shadow, in reliefChange forces us
to reconsider:Are we
the home
built upon
the dirt?Or, are we
the roots
in a fragile
earth?
Peace (and dirt),
Kevin
Ten Steps: Beach Rocks and Beach River Path
These two videos are part of my larger Ten Steps video project — gathering ten images of a walking terrain and creating a one-minute video. Watch the others here.
Peace (sharing it forward),
Kevin
