Late spring garden, originally uploaded by bbmarie.

Our garden is underway. We are eating lettuce regularly out of the back yard now. Soon we will have kale to harvest. We are planting new lettuce every few weeks to make sure we always have some ready to pick. It is so satisfying to have food for the table coming out of our own yard.

We harvested our first rabbit last week and made a stew which was very tasty. The killing of the rabbit was very difficult for me. I do not look forward to the next one but it was important to go through with it. I have wanted to develop a greater connection with our food and there is nothing like killing a rabbit for the pot to make things real.

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kerouac460, originally uploaded by bbmarie.

I have been reading Kerouac. I haven’t spent time with his work since I read On The Road back in ‘83 while I did my laundry in Grand Rapids. That book at that time was like getting hit by lighting. I have always been a little afraid of Kerouac and his friends because of the wild abandon it could possibly send off in me. Maybe at 48 I feel like my life has enough ballast to handle some crazy beatnik energy, some transcendence, some hard hitting all of life embracing, full tilt going at it.

I got a CD of current actors and artists and writers reading his poetry with music and various sound textures underneath. I love this CD and the way the words and images come alive along with the layers of sound working with it.

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mermaid listening, originally uploaded by bbmarie.

This is a new card design offered through my Etsy shop on line. I have a batch of new cards that I have made recently that I am putting into the shop to keep things fresh.  I spend time drawing and redrawing to get designs that have a punch and poetry that excites me and then I cut the block.   The new thing that I am doing is printing the cards one at a time by hand instead of having them printed up in quantity at Kinkos.  This makes them cost a bit more $4.00 a card instead of $2.50 but they have that one at a time by done by hand vibe that is more potent and worth an extra $1.50.  (If you have already done so, check out the studiobeerhorst Etsy shop on line by clicking on Etsy in the list of links in the side bar to the right.) Etsy is such a powerful tool and global online community of people making things with their own hands and doing what they can to make a living and stay true to their authentic self.

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