"Hey babe! What's in your eyes?
Is that the diamonds from the mine?.."

The drive in to work today had the trees lined with gold and the fields rolling in front of me. I thought of the "old days" of all my wanderings as I listened to The Rolling Stones and thought of long tall women in boot-cut pants and how maybe I would draw a series of them called "TEXICANS".

If you haven't heard "You Got the Silver", it's worth a listen... though I do I have to say that Keith Richards could totally rock out a little longer at the end. But at least "You can't always get what you want" and "Gimme Shelter" are also on the same album.

And "The floods is threatning / My very life today / Gimme, gimme shelter / Or Im gonna fade away" are the right words and notes for the sunlight and my heart in it.

I frequently wish that I had a partner in these moments - but currently sitting in the passenger seat is the shifting ghost of some past and current companions - past or future smiles, echoes of laughter.

This ghost has the feeling of a flickering old movie... collapsing into higher contrast through time and flickering between faces and moments. Tones shift to sepia and the light around dazzling as it has polarized with age. He is followed with a moment of poignancy but happiness as well...

I find that this is the love that has stretched through my whole life that I am reaching toward... he has always been my glad companion. It makes me smile.


Not sure what I am meaning to capture here today. There is something on my mind that is rather elusive. So, I skim the cream off of my feelings and pour it into tales that I put here or into emails.

Enjoy the day
love
sue