10 days and still no plumber/money run or macro fail dilemas?

 

He robbed me/ reverting back to the path/slipping my skin moorings

It had all seized up, the rough- said parts, where she had caved. Was it in ? Or under? she wasn't sure, except to say that things had slid, and now the head marooned, sat stiffly like some mute siren-shriek, atop a pole. Mournful on the rocks, dragged in by the tides and the unsafe modesty below. These were the places where she suffered openly, but in secret, behind a line, in degrees that separated from reason. Nursing her tomb, the underling; neglected and rejected in full parts. The soft placed power of the old ways. Full of rightness, but dangerously hemmed in. Except now the tide had caught, and new currents break, somehow no longer confounded by the past. And within these, there comes a candour- a willingness to right the line. To break lose of all the twists and turns; and again do that dangerous thing:  Become a full bodied woman rising. MB

The leg-less olive chair.

The Path

There's something containing about committing to a daily known path. The melding of the inner world, with the outward ebb and flow. Each day presenting something different, but essentially the same. New blooms and signals. The subtlety of gentle currents that strike and form, and from which relationship grows. A tree, the house with the broken down door, the little angry dog that barks as you walk by; or just the way the sun shifts into the late afternoon light. It's all an expanding familiarity that deepens and builds on the day that went before. Like the Old men in groups who have moved from initial grudging wary nods; to now hearty cries of " neighbour" and " hello". Each walk is an opportunity to settle in into the roots of being; the place beyond mind. To ride the storms, grasp the knots, and somehow find and feel the light. Tomorrow is my birthday and 6 months since I arrived in Spain. To the universe I express my deepest thanks, I couldn't have done this without you. MB

Half a base. A day of good write.