I am still full and fat from last night’s feast! I wanted to bring up one thing that I forgot to mention:
I have been thinking about making my car communal/cooperative/collaborative/collectivist. I know someone in town who does this with his housemates…don’t know much about the system he uses. If homies were into it, [...]
fest
marina and the sponges of glass beach
Once upon a time, living sponges roamed the land. They went squishing through the streets of Glass Beach, a small village by the sea, searching for children. When they found them, the sponges made them cry by making the saddest sound anyone had ever heard so that they could drink their tears. It was children [...]
just a taste of the being little/being big zine (available at together gallery May 29)
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you looked like youbut only sobefore I metface to facemy fear of heights
a page turned; we were
wonder world
one:At the beach I sit and wait for something.I sit on a chair that is so low that I can feel the sand easing itself around to accommodate the space that I take up.I sit and look at the ocean and then I go into the ocean.I never know what to do with myself once [...]
frog
frogConsuelo and Delia sit on the floor in Delia’s drafty bedroom in the big green country house near the river that looked like a dollhouse. Consuelo is Indian-style and Delia is crouches. They have been creating a universe on the wood floor, using the hundreds of miniature animals and people and trees and fences and [...]
being little, being big
There was once a little girl who loved horses. She traveled the world, searching for her favorite horse. She admired beautifully bejeweled horses with light fur and dark manes, wearing leis of marigolds;
strong, dark, honest horses garlanded with white beads and bones;
divine horses;
miniature horses;
farm horses;
city horses;
show horses;
a winged horse at a circus;
even sea horses!
She loved [...]
the bubble alphabet
“a” is for allspice“b” is for bubble (or breast or belly or berry or balloon or bread or bud or blimp)“c” is for cell (or cloud)“d” is for dew“e” is for egg“f” is for fig (or fart or foam)“g” is for globe (or grape or gum)“h” is for hole (or hum)“i” is for __________“j” is [...]
the most recent in the series of stories for big kids and little kids
GRANDMA JUNE’S BLACKBERRY BRAMBLEby Polly Bresnick
June’s family gathered at the old farm house where her grandmother had lived her whole long life. June felt sad that her grandma wasn’t there to go blackberry picking with her. She decided it would make her feel better if she went out into the big blackberry bramble at the [...]
mountainside
today I was inside a big white cloud because it came into the house.and then it left.