FROM the BAY to the LAKE
Liquid Writing Therapy
Cathy GF
- Location
- Mt. Tam to Freel Peak, California,
- Birthday
- December 29
- Title
- Writer by desire. Poet by nature.
- Bio
- How much time do you have?
MY RECENT POSTS
- Views of the Eclipse seen
from Lake Tahoe and San
Francisco
May 21, 2012 06:33PM - OCCUPY HEALDSBURG, CALIFORNIA!
A Very Happy MOB
May 19, 2012 10:50PM - I loathe politics, election
years and global distress
May 01, 2012 11:23PM - Wanting To Grow Up Was A Big
Misunderstanding
March 08, 2012 09:35PM - SPRING FORWARD
February 15, 2012 01:14AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “As a "Marinite," I
experience her wonder often.
Great post
and
tribute…”
1:49PM - “Filled out my mail in
ballot for the June primary
today. No
joy in it.”
10:27PM - “THANK YOU!!! I LOVE
UNADULTERATED RHUBARB
ANYTHING!!!!
Love
Rhubarb pie (my mom
m…”
10:23PM - “love your haiku very
much.”
7:54PM - “Thanks again and more
"your welcomes" as your
comments
are
terrific!
YesR
30;”
7:44PM
Cathy GF's Links
- New list
MAY 21, 2012 6:35PM
Views of the Eclipse seen from Lake Tahoe and San Francisco
Eclipsed cloud formations as seen
through living room window.
Eclipse shining through sprinkler
in front yard.
Eclipse… Read full post »
MAY 19, 2012 11:26PM
OCCUPY HEALDSBURG, CALIFORNIA! A Very Happy MOB
SERIOUSLY?!
Did you really think this was about politics?
Hells...NO!
This "Mother of the
Bride" s over the top elated, joyful and on a
major adrenaline high! So much so, that I haven't been able
to hardly sleep for over a week.
And, this is why I… Read full post »
MAY 2, 2012 12:21PM
I loathe politics, election years and global distress
I loathe it all. And then some.
I loathe the way it turns neighbors against each other.
Family members who dare not speak.
Friends who distance themselves.
A media divided.
A people divided.
A nation divided.
A world divided.
Governments divided.
Economies on the brink of universal disaster.
Di… Read full post »
MARCH 8, 2012 10:19PM
Wanting To Grow Up Was A Big Misunderstanding
Funny thing is, they never tell you the "true facts" about growing up.
Not Mom or Dad. Not your teachers. Surely, not your brothers or sisters or your supposed friends. Not even the good ones.
No one ever tells you what growing up is really like.
And we ce… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 15, 2012 2:14AM
SPRING FORWARD
Returning from the mountains after
five days, snow all around...finally...I was struck by these
first signs of Spring in the Bay area. Surreal to me,
really.
Where do these colors come from,
if not from the outer reaches of planetary impossibility?
&n… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 13, 2012 10:21AM
Taxes, Sunday Hike and Kids Being Kids
A winter walk to a hidden
lake
A looming deadline to turn in our
tax planner to our accountant, prevented us from frolicking with
the grand kids on this sunny, springlike winter day.
No stranger to the frustrations
and tedium of tax preparation, we… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:08AM
SEEING RED
Right from the
start
I see the red
heart.
Child of my
own
points to his 'grand'
entrance
that will forever be in
my head.
A birth like no
other;
A shot in the
night,
Did give his new folks
quite a fright.
A beautiful
sight.
JANUARY 18, 2012 6:05PM
WAITING for WINTER (SNOW!)
Valhalla Pier in
South Lake Tahoe today
The vibrating sound of my cell
phone allerted me to a new text message a while ago. The
above photo brought me out of a restful state, after cleaning
cupboards, dusting and completing some much needed domestic
ch… Read full post »
Photo taken late yesterday
afternoon in an attempt to capture the layers of pink and blue in
the sky behind the cabin, when another view 'into' the window
appeared quite by chance.
The moon last night as it appeared
through the living ro… Read full post »
DECEMBER 29, 2011 11:14PM
PUPPY WHOOPED! For Shiral (Love, Dylan)
Our Grandson, Graydon (4.5)
with Dylan ( 10 months)
Dylan, hanging on his
special pillow, day dreaming of Shiral!
Daughter, Michele with her
Frenchie, "Cooper" (Dylan's BFF)
%IMAGE… Read full post »
DECEMBER 29, 2011 12:39AM
CAKE MATH (Holiday Leftovers and Miracles) Plus Wine
What constitutes a "sliver of
cake?"
When spousal unit offers you a
piece of cake and you say, "I'll just have a sliver," how do you
accurately describe the size of cake you care to partake?
Without making a mistake?
Can it be?
DECEMBER 13, 2011 2:17AM
My Santa * Tooth Fairy Made Me Look Bad * What Easter Bunny?
MY
SANTA
This may sound far-fetched,
but when I was a little girl, I pretty much believed everything my
parents told me.
"Your mother's a
saint."
"I have to ask your
father first."
"Children are to be
seen and not heard."
"You need
to… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 29, 2011 8:51PM
"...Be sorry for nothing."
An old movie watched long ago,
comes back to visit on a cloudy, sleepy afternoon.
Its genre is as haunting as it is
soothing. Its recurrent message swaddles us in thoughts of
life lived well or not well enough.
"Meet Joe Black"
brings/… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 13, 2011 10:24AM
LESS IS STILL LESS
Simple math would dictate it.
Blonde math would masticate it.
Loss of income would dictate it.
Higher taxes illustrate it.
No eye or dental underscores it.
Gynormous deductibles highlight it.
Sleeping late ignores it.
Unemployment lines can't fake it.
Bread lines predate it.
History repeats it.… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 11, 2011 1:13AM
PAPER CUT
When you tread
lightly to the curb;
Turn back and look for
the soft spot in the grass.
You have
arrived.
When you lay your head
upon a perfect pillow;
Cradle your neck in
firm recesses of comfort,
You… Read full post »
OCTOBER 30, 2011 9:49PM
COOL CREATIVE CLEVER PUMPKIN CARVING - OPEN CALL
Just for the ghoolish fun
of it, let's post some of our spooky pumpkin designs; carving
extraordinaire and all that ghostly gobbledygook!
I am a push over for
Halloween and have all the cheesy Halloween decorations in my front
yard complete with pumpkins in… Read full post »
OCTOBER 25, 2011 10:30AM
Breakneck Speed
knife, gun, pills, balcony, suffocation, jump, run, stop, hit,
split second.
which way to run or not to run at all.
stop, start, hesitate, return to position, aim, shoot,
never stall.
have a nice meal, don't hold back,
pick any stranger to get in the… Read full post »
OCTOBER 24, 2011 1:00PM
YES OR NO? (100 word flash fiction) Prequel
Having seen a highly
recommended psychic some months ago, my head was swimming in
"what ifs."
Had it been a terrible mistake
to ask such questions; the answers which would haunt me and effect
so many sleepless nights? I regretted it.
She was so clear I would
be… Read full post »
OCTOBER 23, 2011 12:24AM
LAST SEEN (100 word flash fiction)
For Susie Lindau's
"flash fiction" OC
...nearly falling
asleep at the wheel, it seemed the right thing to do.
pulling over onto a
small patch of off road space surrounded by large drooping
pines weighted by the recent downpour, I listened as the engine
s… Read full post »
OCTOBER 17, 2011 9:54AM
The Power of Blue
Blue becomes you...part
II
Minnesota Summer
Evening Sky
Blue becomes your moody
blues
"Bubbers" dripping in
Tahoe blue
"Baker" Basking in blue
Ne… Read full post »
OCTOBER 13, 2011 8:53AM
Becoming Blue Becomes You
Purest blue of
skies
Listening to the
cries
Of many urgent
whys
Softly uttered
sighs.
Can you be so blue?
In bushes so blue with
bees
Troubling for
few
Who love to be
blue
Her blossoms reach to the
sky
Blue never… Read full post »
OCTOBER 10, 2011 9:27PM
My Precious Pumpkins (photos for the season)
When the bully who
harmed you was your best friend.
A common biblical verse most of us
have heard so often, especially in our youth, we were taught to
strive to be kind to others, even while others were not so kind to
us.… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 11:58PM
PAN AM or TWA: "eenie meenie miney moe"
Second largest US
Airline in the world...and...let's just say...past
tense.
Pan Am also the oldest
airline in the world and the oldest airplanes/jets.
Back in the day...
While
so… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 12:08PM
Reno Air Race Crash: Broken Aircraft - Broken Lives
"Gramma!" There was no pilot in the plane that crashed!"
Seeing, hearing and feeling the horror of this tragedy through the eyes of your grandchildren, is heart pounding, gut wrenching and the making of our most feared nightmares.
My four and a half year old grandson declared the above. F… Read full post »
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