happy heart

happy heart, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

May your heart be happy.
Happy New Year to You!

Thank you for all the kind words
and visitations.

All my best,
Kim
xo

ducky

heart pin ducky, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

pure

last night was a good one
i went to return the video
at the delinquint plaza
the one sandwiched by two bars
the london fog and the crusty sailor

in between is the corner store
where i hooked up owen to the sun box
and the smoking video man told me he would watch him
and i told the corner store guy he was a baby and didn't like to be left

the corner store guy eventually peered out at owen
who was surrounded in his petre dish by smoking asian men
and guys half cocked from the fog

because i am so pure
i bought miss vicky's
salt and vinegar

no preservatives or trans fats
isn't that nobel
i almost deserve a prize
this was after ranting about no junk food in the house
about johnny rotten and crisp chips
about being good not bad

i shared them

and they were delicious

strawberry pencase

hello

the weather is grey
thawish
and melty

we are all home
having unwrapped
and eatten
and unbuttoned

we all are ailing souls
except for bea who is mended

jay cracked his ribs because owen jumped him
and i have sore shoulders from carrying bags of grocery

lots of thoughts have been swishing around my skull
i think i have a poetry book
but i won't say more incase i don't

i have been enjoying the random ness of these days
the waiting room time of year
the aeroport lounge feeling
especially being a little under the weather
the big ness of the holidays passed

and the limbs of the trees even more bold
the cosiness of slippered feet
and dogs on afgans

the sad feeling of bags of recycled wrapping
and the trees with their experation date

time after then before the new year
flat land
waiting, regrouping, resolving

word bundle island

word bundle island, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

hello i am back from my island excursion into crafty biggy ness...

and now it is time to sing this little anouncement

the is any body out there contest:

be bold
say hello
perhaps there are no trees in this forest,
perhaps there are!d

tell me your favorite word,
do you have a favorite word?

and i will send you a small small parcel

something i call a 'word bundle'
it has 20 small drawings and words
the little pictures are wrapped in cloth
tied with string

the first three responses to this post will
recieve a bundle of words in the mail

and then as well three more choosen
at random from all the replies...?!
i will send out a bundle of words to!

thank you so much for your participation.
some times i wonder if i am all alone out here
on this pleasant little island.


best wishes,
kim

fellow travellers sunshine

fellow travellers sunshine, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

thank you all to those that visited me at the One of a Kind Show these past days. Boy was it exciting and exhausting. Truly a Mount Everest. Special Special thank yous to all those wonderful friends and family that helped me with the show. You dear friends are wonderful and amazing. Thanks too to all those that purchased gear from my wee suitcase empire. I hope you do enjoy!!

I will be back with more words and pictures. New inventions and recreations of the wheel.

Thank You All.
Kim

one of a kind show

hiatus, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

http://oneofakindshow.com/xmas07/index.php

a brief hiatus from my electronic adventures until december,

i will be selling my wares this year from november 22- december 2
at the one of a kind show in toronto.

i am in teeny booth number G-50 in the rising stars section

please do come and visit me.

ten to three

wrapped in a head scarf because it is cool
i sit and sit hot chocolate, because it is cool
with my little dog foot warmer at my feet

this is the break in the day
the mug so big it makes me still smaller
the watching of the clock
that will usher in the younger
and noise and action and activity
homework, and doing and constant talk

this is the time, that i sit,
in my parlour just me the spider, the fly
miss moffatt and all the rest
pulling from the shelf a book
i have bought from the good will
it is the good will of others
that pass on the rich tones of pages
that might sit unread, donated and
bought by the likes of me

and then my head and hands become too wordy
and like any good purge binge situation
i sit and do the other thing
in this case keeping fingers warm
because it is cool

fellow travellers 2, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

wooly bears basket

wooly bears basket 2, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

i have been preparing for my first venture into the christmas one of a kind show.

i hope it is kind.
i have been busy.
so much in my basket of thoughts and activities.
bears, and errands and pots of soup yet to be made,
sweet goldfish going another day in a foggy tank

the leaves in my backyard are excellent.
yesterday in the dewy ness i meet a fantastic spider web

bea has been home sick,
with a stuffed up ness

i have been working here..
in bits and bobs of time,

recently i read a very nice interview with bruce springstein
who closes his door to write, in a do not disturb mode and his son asks him for a lift and i imagine him putting down the pen, because what he does is gives his son that lift... knowing there is no end to creativity and songs and such.

so i flit, trying my best, keeping my sanity
taking the dog to the park, encouraging good acts of kid art,
stirring, shopping, being me here now and trying not to worry to much about my basket of bears and the 10 thousand things
and hearing glenn gould play the goldberg variations just lets me
click away, life so full, and so much and so short ...

in my backyard two mature pine trees keep me in touch with all these beautiful things, all the coming and going and the deep good breathes one can take while under the branches of good friend trees

this is me these days
how are you?

Ernestine

Ernestine 2, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

Ernestine has a buttony hair do.
Ernestine eats bagels with butter and visits her Mother in a Nursing Home, her Mother is 123!
Ernestine plays flute and walks 7 miles every other day.
Ernestine once snuck into the circus when she was 4, and feels still guilty to this day.
Ernestine laughs deeply at weak jokes and jumps puddles in a single step.
Ernestine has friends near and far.
Ernestine ponders the wonder of the Universe.

wooly bear 13b

wooly bear 13b, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

Please name this bear.

Something about 3am, gets the faces just right.

dust

dust, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

snug spooks

snug spooks, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

happy halloweenie!
...so scarey it made my teeth sweet.

hello workshop saturday

hello folks,
i am teaching a workshop at nathalie-roze and company this saturday. i do believe a few spots are a waiting to be filled.
please click on nathalie-roze, in my links to find out more.



thanks and enjoy the day.

downstairs now

purse puppy love detail, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

today it is rainy
canadian geese flew by the window and honked
owen barked

in the puddle at the school big white sea gulls played stand on one foot

i see snips of the outside here
writing this
a patch of green
sounds of cars streaming by
a brick wall
windows of the neighbour next door

i see patches of light and dark
in the living room
shadows of sofa
and pillow
sounds of owen
licking his lips

tea sits waiting
in its basket
the earl of grey himself
with milk

how rich life seems
on this day

i woke very early today
and had a good chance to meet the day
walking in pouring rain with my dear dog
in the dark
illumintation from street lamps
scattered maple leaves on cement
frankenstein ready for halloween

syllabic chants in my mind
the rhythm of rain
not just the light but the soft sound
of everything moving

The Continuing Adventures of Mama Small

April's Outfit, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

Chapter 3459
Mama Small Goes to the Fun Fair

In which Mama brings her magic button making machine to her daughter's fun fair, in a booth entitled 'design your own button'.
Mama Small's journey brings her to the magic well, mysterious children with many buttons and the adventure of not really caring what day of the week it is.

Be sure to check out this mamoth old story, available now by cosmic conection, mind reading or filling in the blanks.

Have a rok-us good weekend folks.

Russian Doll style

Russian Doll style, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.

new post, wise old words, ancient Chinese secrets to share

i am reading a delightful book by jon kabat-zinn oddly enough
titled with my very favorite quote, which i thought was from the
1980's film buckeroo bonzai, the book is called:
wherever you go there you are
(mindful meditation in everyday life)

i have found it a beautiful read, and very true,
wherever you go there you are!

here are words from Chuang Tzu
a very wise guy from third century China

Prince Wen Hui's cook,
Was cutting up an ox.
Out went a hand,
Down went a shoulder,
He planted a foot,
He pressed with a knee,
The ox fell apart
With a whisper,
The bright cleaver murmured
Like a gentle wind.
Rhythm! Timing!
Like a sacred dance,
Like " The Mulberry Grove,"
Like ancient harmonies!

"Good work!" the Prince exclaimed,
"Your method is faultless!"
"Method?" said the cook
Laying aside his cleaver,
"What I follow is Tao
Beyond all methods!

"When I first began
To cut up oxen
I would see before me
The whole ox
All in one mass.
I no longer saw this mass.
I saw distinctions.

"But now I see nothing
With the eye. My whole being
Apprehends.
My senses are idle. The spirit
Free to work without plan
Follows its own instinct
Guided by natural line,

By the secret opening, the hidden space,
My cleaver finds its own way.
I cut through no joints, chop no bone.

. . .

"There are spaces in the joints:
The blade is thin and keen:
When this thinness
Finds that space
There is all the room you need!
It goes like a breeze!
Hence I have this cleaver nineteen years
As if newly sharpened!

"True, there are sometimes
Tough joints. I feel them coming,
I slow down, I watch closely,
Hold back, barely move the blade,
And whump! the part falls away
Landing like a clod of earth.

"Then I withdraw the blade,
I stand still
And let the joy of work
Sink in.
I clean the blade
And put it away."

Prince Wen Hui said,
"This is it! My cook has shown me
How I ought to live
My own life!'

-CHUANG TZU


( I did also read this advice from a book called something like "Crazy Dog" about being joyful and involved in your life
simply put this fellow, a Brian someone, sorry I seemed to have mislaid this book and can't recall the authors name said "Let God open the holes")


also I love this from John Kabit-Zinn's book
a passage by our old friend Lao-Tsu, author of
the Tao-te- Ching

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

purse rhonda, originally uploaded by Kim's Suitcase.