My Inner Child

With only two oranges, I wouldn't exactly call this juggling but at least I usually didn't drop them.  That was when I worked as a birthday party entertainer.  I was known as T.W. McElf and I would take children on a magical dance journey through imaginary woods and water and places where you could only move backwards.  This unitard was my costume - it was hand painted by an artist in the 80's which was when I was doing this kind of work to supplement my income as a dancer, waitress and part time teacher.  It still fits me but I no longer consider myself an elf!




















Shoes were superfluous in this context.

I added this skirt to make an outfit for the Penelope Cake of today.  I hand embroidered it with this Tolkien quote that sums up my life from then until now.  Wandering does take you to the most interesting places!

Looking back, the real seems imaginary and in retrospect it was a wonderful journey.  






Maybe I really am an elf!

2 Poems?

I have been walking to the beach every morning and thinking about things....

Morning walk #1

Pippi weighs 8lbs 13ozs and she barks at the ocean.

I think that she thinks

It will answer her.

Nothing has prepared her for this.

Not the joggers that come too close,

Or the other dogs that get in her way on city sidewalks.

It does not respond to her voice but repeats its own refrain.

The waves roll in and she runs out, creating her own song.  Soon they are dancing together. 

Morning Walk #2

There is time to find beach glass.

No need to bow

Down

Now.

It will be there when I find it.

For now, I look out.

Tall back, long neck,

Shoulders released.

To where

There

Is time.