White Heron ♥ Mountain Man
Sage Bundle Yum Waarm Ye ♥ Stag Hare
Waves ♥ White Rainbow
Red Sky ♥ Wooden Veil
Warrior’s Lullaby ♥ Steffen Basho-Junghans
Into the Dust of the Earth ♥ Brethren of the Free Spirit
Winters Love ♥ Animal Collective
Bride of the Spirits ♥ Twinsistermoon
Abscheid ♥ Nico
The Spears of the Wolf ♥ Natural Snow Buildings
Seadrift ♥ Arborea
Dreamcast ♥ Yoga
Old Days ♥ Rose Melberg
White ♥ Sian Alice Group
White As Diamonds ♥ Alela Diane
The Ice ♥ Odawas
White Wind ♥ Peter Walker
Crystal Peak ♥ Vanishing Voice
Spiral Spell ♥ Siren
Animal Tracks ♥ Mountain Man

I’ve been home from the hospital for a day, all spinny woozy! I want to be floating in tiny boats down fairy-rivers, instead I have a million things to do for work and feel super stressed crazy upset weird. Oh chemicals, oh bodies. Everything went well, though, and hopefully healing and being stitched up nice and sound will coincide with things falling into place. Such a lot of poor luck has been happening – letters and parcels stolen, near miss car smashes, death and sorrows, just a lot of chaos! Luckily I am tucked safe and cozy in our wee nest, being taken care of. Begone, dark days; hello new tomorrows!!!

Seadrift ♥ Arborea
Don’t You Wish Your Baby was Built Up Like Mine? ♥ Texas Alexander
My Daddy Rocks Me ♥ Trixie Smith
Bad Blood ♥ Brownie McGhee
Katie Cruel ♥ Karen Dalton
Went Walking ♥ Bosque Brown
Ashes from Your Burning Wood ♥ Orion Rigel Dommisse
Absent Afternoon ♥ Barn Owl
Blackbird ♥ Arrowwood
Barefoot Pilgrims ♥ Balmorhea
Return of the Nose ♥ Wooden Wand
Ocean Out Of Wood ♥ Svarte Greiner
We Eat Pine Cones ♥ The North Sea
Idumea ♥ Sheila Kay Adams
Seance In The Sixth Fret ♥ Exuma

Photos from last October’s trip to Vermont. Must reschedule mine, now now now.

I picked this painting up from Kyle Ranson the other day as part of his blow-out art sale. He was about to head to the east coast for another collab show in NYC with Monica Canilao (the work I saw for it is clutch-worthy! If you’re in NYC, go and buy it all. Then send it to me. Thanks.)  He also mentioned that he was going to work with Dan Higgs, at which point I freaked out. Crazy shaman magic!! I cannot wait to see the results. I have this theory that all art is religious — we use art to create our mythologies, from renaissance monotheism to nature iconography to the magical creatures popping up in art all over these days. Kyle takes biblical mythology and brings it into the realm of the shamanic and psychedelic.

He also has a crazy amazing band, Pale Hoarse, with the equally amazing Kim.

Pale Hoarse – Darkness Has Taken Over Me

While looking around his room, especially at the work for the collaborative show in NYC, I was struck by a simple thought: make stuff. Vocalized, this sounded like the dumbest, most obvious thing ever. Somehow, though, the chord it struck in my mind snapped me out of some of that treading water feeling I get in life – I can’t be productive enough, creative enough, I don’t have energy or drive. Talking with someone who lives life completely creatively and is surrounded by work was super inspiring and wake-up-call-ing. So yeah. What are you going to create today? Go make stuff.

Besides her role as people curator in the cosmic hum, she’s a painter, a collector of magic & an antique magnet, a storyteller, a world traveler, a gypsy witch, a whirling dervish, writer, an insomniac oracle, & one of the most cozy lovely amazing ladies you could ever have the luck to meet!! One day we will travel to China, or perhaps I will move to Austin. One never knows.

Her blog speaks of a million more wonders than I could ever detail here, so get a cup of tea, cozy up for awhile, and tuck in for a good read.

Shhhhh!! This is kind of a cheating post; Angel’s asked for a new mix a few times and I’ve been throwing songs into a playlist and not getting around to burning them and mailing in tangible form, & so here you are – an Angeliska mix for everyone. Please to (right click &) download and put in a playlist in this order before listening!

Rainbow ♥ Valet
Fingernail Tea ♥ Psychic Ills
Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping ♥ Grouper
Dry And Dusty ♥ Fever Ray
Canvas ♥ Imogen Heap
Monkey Chant ♥ Matteah Baim
Thunderlove ♥ Ohbijou
Skinnybone ♥ Sea of Bees
Curs In The Weeds ♥ Horse Feathers
Toboggan ♥ Breathe Owl Breathe
This is the Spade That Descends ♥ Head of Wantastiquet
In a Station ♥ Karen Dalton
Go Away With Me ♥ Dehli Low
My Boy Builds Coffins ♥ Florence And The Machine
Spirited ♥ Laura Gibson
Northern Lights ♥ Bowerbirds
Gifted Donald ♥ The Lovely Feathers
My Girls ♥ Animal Collective
Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh ♥ Sunset Rubdown
Many Ghosts ♥ Akron/Family
A Hand At Dusk ♥ Swan Lake
Horse Steppin’ ♥ Sun Araw
BlindBlindBlind ♥ A Silver Mt. Zion

Picture this: my high school graduation, I’m in a lilac floral grunge dress, lilac dr martens, & with my giant red curly hair, singing “these are days.” I should try to dig up photos while I’m in Vermont. [edit: here!] Ridiculous! Oh dear! That’s how bad the obsession was! Singing songs at graduation!

greta’s cedar hope chest
is full of pamphlets
glass shelves of romantic vignettes
a journal laced with sedimentary prose

norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays
hair combs valentines

lillian allows the animals to scratch
and the leather crack
the mail collect in the box as coatings peel

agnes veiled cathedral dweller
smiles with benevolent pain
it’s katrina’s fair tuesday morning
as she with caution unlatches the flat door
she alone cascades to the basement
careful not to spoil her
calico printed pinafore
composite traits mannerists
all others dissipate

margauritte vigilant dwells upon frigid casements

sarah’s thoughts in the velocity
accusations always pierce and pass

clara abandons her passions for distastes
miss lenora p. sinclair
early for coffee in the pool
“i’m resituating all your words”
capital
space
colon
paragraph

sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled
kingdom phylum class order family genus species

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