Vision & Shape

Wayfinding

Talk About Love

“It ought to make us feel ashamed

when we talk like we know what we're talking about

when we talk about love.”

―Raymond Carver

Homesick

My Mom asked Imogen, who was staying over, if she was homesick. Imogen said "no." My Mom then asked her if she knows what homesick means. Imogen said "yes, it's when you throw up at home."

On the Subject of the Soul

Developing one's vision
is a lifelong enterprise.
-Poet Tess Gallagher

Waged in Love

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

―Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

Time To Go To Her

I Am the Found One

Woolly Bees of the Heart

Imogen May

Big Barn Farm

Photo by Tara McGovern

Make Them Crepes

"Valérie Trierweiler [the First Lady of France], who has three teenage sons, struggles with feeling guilty about being a good mother, and discusses the issue in a more relatable way than, say, Ann Romney. 'I've shared the fate of many working mothers, I felt guilty like them,' Trierweiler said. 'I took Wednesdays off to see my children and make them crepes.' She turned down a foreign correspondent gig because 'I wanted to stay with them.'"

Katie J.M.Baker | "Why France’s New First Lady Is Straight-Up Awesome" | Jezebel.com

We Love You So

“You cannot write for children.

They're much too complicated.

You can only write books that are of interest to them.”

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)

The Center of Your Life

“It’s possible that no father in literary history has so stood on the right side of this dictum from Calvin Trillin:

‘Your children are either the center of your life or not, and the rest is commentary.’”

Dwight Garner

“Honoring a Father’s Memory With Words Carved More Deeply Than an Epitaph”

The New York Times

The Queen Father

My Child

"I love you Mama. Like you love your child."

Imogen

All the Websites

"Mom, can you show me all the websites in the whole wide world? There aren't very many."

Imogen

The Elofit

Ice Cream Lady

Choclit Choclit C[h]ip

Playing Mom

Taking care of Tulah

Ledge of Loose Diamonds

Ediz Hook
Last Sunday

A Portable Altar

Easter
Crescent Beach

Each Bird Walking

I hope you love birds too. -Emily Dickinson

Queen City

1961 Seafair Queen Linda Ann Juel
Photo: blog.hollyhardwick.com

"I wish there was a Queen of Seattle and a Queen of America."

Imogen, after discovering that Seattle used to be called the Queen City

Avow

"Justice for all!

That's what you say when you're getting married." -Imogen

The Art of Being

A fancy way to write "Mom."

Still Life With Vegetables

Pink and purple vegetables
Nash's Organic Produce, Port Angeles Farmers Market

Where Children Gather

Kiwanis Kids Fest
Port Angeles, Washington
March 31

Just So Handsome

Gilligan's just so handsome and he has a handsome name.
-Imogen

My Motorsickle

Imogen and Friends

A Good Heart

We Will

The mother of Imogen's future husband writes:

"I reminded My 4 year old…that mommy and daddy were going to sleep alone in their bed tonight and he would sleep in his room with his sister. He told me that he and Imogen would get married someday. I said, 'yeah, maybe you will' and he said, 'no, mom. We will.'"

Mud in Your Pie

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts.

So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

Charles Dudley Warner