Change your environment to get things, uh, moving??

http://www.fastcompany.com/3014676/how-to-design-a-more-serendipitous-creative-life

Number 2, no pun intended, has been a consistent thought I've had here in Portland, as I frequent tea shops and in turn must frequent the restroom.  Many establishments will share a building in which the single stalled bathrooms are placed in the center of the structure and customers unite in the hallway to wait, an interesting place to strike up a conversation before slipping into privacy.  You never know what can happen while in line for the loo.  Serendipitous, creative endeavors could emerge?!  Ah, damn, this post has turned to shit.

Poetry post turns herb garden.

One bike adventure to The Rebuilding Center on Mississippi, one cutting of plexiglass, one afternoon of nail foraging(have you ever looked down to see how many screws are just lying around?), one evening carrying two, two-by-fours from Steve and Larry's house(two men I randomly asked for wood seven blocks from home, yes Steve and Larry, yes, I said wood), one bloody thumb, gorilla glue, building blocks, one tired arm o sawing, many un straight lines, one hot mess, one loss of vision and by vision I mean simplicity, and one week later I finished and aborted a poetry box all at once.

 

 I can build pretty much anything at this point...

  My visions were lofty, execution: poor.

  

 

Table saw and half a brain more next go round.

 

 But.. it evolved into this... poems, not to be contained, but plucked up with the pineapple sage or a sprig of mint or some free lemon thyme. I suppose the block I started with held a good idea all along.  And while I thought I might become Barb the Builder, I will not be assembling the next ark anytime soon... But I might like another go at it... Plumbean Book Exchange?!
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Contornionist

"Those poor bonsai just want to grow," a coworker's grandmother said.  Just think of their limbs all twisted and contorted, manipulated and made to fit into one small pot, continually shaped to stunt growth.  Although, Japanese culture says "a tree left growing in it's natural state is a crude thing".

bonsai-
contorted roots,
your branches sag.

bonsai-
clipped wings,
twisted trunk.

bonsai-
thirsty
for the clouds.