fifi’s graffiti

There’s only one way the game can end: the Angel, victorious, and You, motionless, glass-eyes staring into eternity, your body fodder for the bottle-green flies.

…And then we saw him bolt.
We heard the miniature thunder where he fled,
And we saw him, or thought we saw him, dim and gray,
Like a shadow….
–Robert Frost

My beautiful sixteen-year-old niece ran away three weeks ago. We haven’t seen or heard from her since the night she stuffed some clothes under her bed covers and silently […]

We’re getting insulated! The carpenters pulled off an upper row of clapboards around the house and today the cellulose will be blown in to fill the walls and put something between us and the outer air at last. The insulators have donned their hazmat suits, hardhats, and face masks and are prepping their machinery as […]

Seems like I can’t take a walk around this neighborhood without finding some new piece of architecture to fascinate me. This is a detail from a beatup screen door (now screenless, I believe). It’s the only one I’ve seen around here with this design. And of course I like the little turnbuckle that’s holding it […]

The first pink-feathered monsters arrived last Monday. We thought they were stragglers from a northern migration seeking refuge from the hurricane-like winds that had been beating the sky lately. Four of them grazed in the front yard of the old house that’s being painted beige and grey. We figured it was the smell of […]

It’s raining again today.
In March while staying with friends I read almost every decorating book they had in their house. One idea that caught my attention was a comic-covered metal chair. It gave a new face to “pop art”, as the colors were really in your face. I have an old dark bookcase that I […]

A very pretty spider I saw in the garden yesterday. I had just got down on my hands and knees to shoot this, when I felt something stick into my knee. I didn’t see any stickers growing there, so I leaned on my elbows even closer to the web, trying to steady the camera. Suddenly […]

Here’s my latest use for those plastic bags my mom keeps getting at WalMart. I used two bags for each blade of the ceiling fan, attached with clothes pins to protect them while I’m painting. Painting’s a messy job. This is my mom’s bedroom. It’s a lot more work than rooms I’ve done in the […]

Up for an awareness challenge?
All these years I’ve been blogging I’ve not posted a single video from youtube. I’m posting this one because I’m practicing “being present” in my life, and part of that practice requires observation, which this video depicts. I have to continually resist the temptation to mentally bookmark things just so I […]

When did Mother’s Day become a time to immerse your mom in material burdens like jewelry, new cars, or Manolo pumps?
Someone just turned me on to this beautiful short film. You don’t have to be a mom for it to rend your heart.
Please watch Mother’s Day for Peace.
More about the women who participated in the […]