misplaced mama

We are going to Orcas Island to celebrate the first birthday of my baby girl which happens to be tomorrow.  My journal is filled with a recipe of words in her honor, words I have been scribbling between school drop offs and swiping small craft beads from then babies mouth.  Until I share them, a moment here where Sula is explaining to Z what  she can do as a one year old, you can jump on the grass from dada’s ladder and eat Q-tips…here try one… and your bones can crack and then jewels will fall out of them and you also can have some salmon. Wise words, Sister Sula.  Happy almost birthday litte Dove.

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What have I been doing while on a Cyber Detox?  Lots.  But first let me vent on my current financial situation that has upheld the installation of Misplaced Mama’s new Satellite system out here in the cradle of the mama earth: AAARRRGH.  But I call upon Buffalo Medicine, and the abundance flows to us, as always Jah provides.  I have lived in the belly of the city and the middle of the forests and in the semi-suburbs.  Somehow we always seem to be fed and sheltered and surrounded by beauty, culture, rhythm.  I know that the iron will smooth out the kinks and soon internet will grace our home along with the bills being paid.  Until then, I bow down to the little cafe up the way that fills my cup of coffee and lets me ride the wave of their wireless.

This month

I turned 35.

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Hung out with cousins.

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Survived Floods officially called National Disasters.

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Got up-do’s at The Hairstream in Glacier.

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And I have been writing.  I have been writing more and more, the absence of the internet and it’s distractions bring blessings.  Microsoft Word meeting up with fast and furious typing have been music under the waning moon. But I miss this connection, this space, where so many hold me on this journey.  This community is real, and I feel it the most when I am away from it.  For you, who is another myself, I give thanks.