I think of the ancestress once again, sitting still in her shed, holding back the Flood with her bowls and straws. I recall how she entrained her consciousness with her sisters' bleeding, with the proto-moon, with dogs, jackal, and the black leopard; with the red ant mound and with Snake; with Great Tiamat the sea and with earth's fresh waterways; with the “blood” of red meat and with red fire; with plant sap, roots, fruits, grains, and flowers; with the bloody geometric strings of cat's cradle and the veins of precious minerals; and with the sun and planets and the razor Pleiades.

Although it may be “better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness,” I say it is better still to un-curse the dark. We must learn the world whole. Light is evil as well as good; dark is is good as well as evil.

We must learn the world whole.

- Judy Grahn, Blood, Bread, and Roses

Ilse, 2006

Zac Jones, July 2008

.Lost.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you

Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,

Must ask permission to know it and be known.

The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,

I have made this place around you,

If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.

If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,

You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows

Where you are. You must let it find you.

- David Wagoner

Éowyn and Coco, February 2008

Port Macquarie, NSW, November 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6jCpChUxOw

Beautiful Emma, October 2006

David's Art, 2008

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

Eddie, Roo, and Bastian, August 2008

Serendipity Rose, December 2006

I am piecing a potion

To combat your poison

She is risen

She is risen

Boys

I said she is risen

- Tori Amos, Barons of Suburbia

Scanned Lavender, 2006