LU-ON-LU

On Heavy Rotation

2012-01-31T10:16:00.000-08:00

Forever Clearheaded

2012-01-31T07:20:00.000-08:00

"A laughter in the diamond air,

A music in the trembling grass."

Flying Happy.

Out-of-Door Life

2012-01-30T07:58:00.000-08:00

spain.

the altering energy, immense beauty, intricately sculpted rock,

bay of biscay.

Nature at it's finest.

It was impossible for me to fully capture.

But I can best describe this sacred place as

The Basque Country -

A Haunt of Ancient Peace.

Go Forth

2012-01-30T07:56:00.000-08:00

The Zest of Existence

Love Monday

2012-01-30T07:48:00.000-08:00

Playlist

2012-01-28T20:06:00.000-08:00

Invisible Stories

2012-01-28T19:52:00.000-08:00

'twas i, but 'tis not i

Wild Western Winds

2012-01-28T19:44:00.000-08:00

they call

with the upmost form

of mystery.

Look at Life

2012-01-26T12:18:00.000-08:00

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile,

and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

-J.Muir

Wednesday Mood

2012-01-25T13:07:00.000-08:00

Bow for a Beau

2012-01-24T20:46:00.001-08:00

Love is Never Simple;

But I

Celebrate It.

This Very Moment

2012-01-23T15:47:00.000-08:00

Frame of Mind:

the dream of starting a clothing line

called...

'Lounging Hardwear'

Me thinks, yes.

Come April...

2012-01-23T14:50:00.000-08:00

Can't Wait.

Love Monday

2012-01-23T13:49:00.000-08:00

Friday Mood

2012-01-20T06:36:00.000-08:00

Spinning

2012-01-19T19:29:00.000-08:00

This Very Moment

2012-01-19T15:44:00.000-08:00

Dim.

Back Away From The Desk

Click Play

2012-01-19T14:27:00.000-08:00

Our Hearts

2012-01-18T20:42:00.000-08:00

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Shot of the Day

2012-01-17T15:40:00.000-08:00

A Murmuring

2012-01-17T08:15:00.000-08:00

my soul today is far away.

with dreamful eyes, i seek.

To Disrupt

2012-01-17T07:26:00.000-08:00

The past four days I've been moving my grandmother who's 99 years young,

out of her house of 50 years.

A Real Time Capsule.

50 years of magazines, papers, boxes, bits&bobs, fabric, clothing.

most, magically preserved in a weathered garage.

dust-dirt-spiders-dust-mice-more dirt-wasp nests and more, oh my!

a private woman who kept nearly everything in her lifetime was cause for

mountains of trash and a houseful of donation.

We were all emotionally raw, watching pieces of furniture you knew so well be thrown onto a pile. Men searching rooms for

'the most valuable pieces'

my grandmother sat uneasy while observing

the violent act of memories being discarded.

Tears fell, but gems were rescued, our hearts and bodies ache.

To the best woman I know....

we must remember, they're just things.

Everything will be alright.

Close Encounters of the Third Wine

2012-01-13T20:32:00.000-08:00

happy weekend,

-lu

Love

2012-01-13T17:03:00.000-08:00

Love

Rule of Thumb

2012-01-13T06:53:00.000-08:00

Un Cortado.

A daily staple while living in Spain.

I've been thinking back on my time there and how easily travel can vanish.

It's now a distant memory, a distance place, a distant self.

Since I was unable to write about my experiences on this blog then,

I feel like its rather redundant to write about it now.

i may spew out a post or two...

But really,

here's to the present.

A Zephyr

2012-01-12T13:53:00.000-08:00

Pale Skies, Steady Snow, & Mandarina.

Last Night

2012-01-12T09:09:00.001-08:00

It's rare for me to promote a film, especially one staring knightly.

but this random watch was surprisingly good.

It had me crying, thrice.

click play.

Self Reflection

2012-01-11T18:28:00.000-08:00

'to live in fear is a life half lived.'

The Magic Flute

2012-01-11T13:18:00.000-08:00

An evening at the Opera: a Comedy and Tragedy

With the heavy swing of an anchored door,

you enter an art deco splendor;

glimmering of gold.

a light emits from the white marble flooring, navigating one with ease.

A sea of black garments keep adrift, till docked at a port of wine.

Drawn to the rising current of red,

we make way of heaving chicago buoy's.

while charting the upper level, some oozing of souls became a flash flood.

for then, I feared the balcony would capsize.

the cramming of lanky gams into short stature seating,

billowing winter coats, loud voices,

and the stark glow of iphones.

The lights dimmed and with profound ease,

the soft whisper of music floated upward.

it's precise elegance beckoned my eyes to close.

breathing in music first heard 221 years past...

I left Time.

Shot of the Day

2012-01-10T13:52:00.001-08:00

This Very Moment

2012-01-10T10:24:00.000-08:00

A Long Spark Running Dim.

Note to Self

2012-01-10T07:47:00.000-08:00

" Sometimes good things fall apart

so better things can fall together." -marilyn monroe

Love Monday

2012-01-09T09:10:00.000-08:00

A Place to Lay My Heart

2012-01-08T15:12:00.000-08:00

Reactions

2012-01-08T11:14:00.001-08:00

The Inner Flame

2012-01-08T09:10:00.000-08:00

" The exhilarating moment when the safe place is left behind and the new place is not yet arrived at - that 'in between' moment that contains the thrill of the journey. "

Unplanned Plans

2012-01-07T08:33:00.000-08:00

Spinning Loud

2012-01-07T08:30:00.000-08:00

Kitschy-Kitchen Habits

2012-01-06T09:19:00.000-08:00

Does one inherit this custom?

the storing of aspirin/cold medicine in a kitchen cabinet or drawer?

It wasn't till this morning that I noticed my mother's collection with a chuckle.

Funny what you don't 'see' in yourself and in others as well.

clearly i've been jaded by this sight, because I myself,

subconsciously store a bottle of advil in a kitchen drawer.

Now recalling, my grandmother had a glass bottle of aspirin in her cupboard -

next to the coffee cups.

Was this the syndrom of an alcoholic?

When I'm ill, I wake and head straight for the bathroom.

If I'm hungover, I wake up and head straight to the kitchen.

My imagination runs the line of:

my cigarette-coated-gin-martini-hungover grandmother, shuffling into the kitchen with baby-blue rollers in her hair, blindly putting on the coffee.

when grabbing for a cup, she swoops that aspirin bottle by the neck with her index finger.

immediately soothed by the noise of those clinking pills.

Not to say that keeping medicine in your kitchen links to drinking...

(cups neighboring pills make a whole lot of sense)

Rather, did my babyboom parents pick this placement up from

the generation of heavy drinkers who raised them?

Just an observation.

-lu

Marnin'

2012-01-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

The Three Graces

2012-01-05T18:23:00.001-08:00

A Thousand Silent Years Ago

2012-01-05T12:03:00.000-08:00

"When all our hopes and fears are dead,

And both our hearts are cold,

And love is like a tune that's played,

And life a tale that's told,

"This senseless stone, so coldly fair,

That love nor life can warm,

The same enchanting look shall wear,

The same enchanting form.

"Its peace no sorrow shall destroy;

Its beauty age shall spare

The bitterness of vanished joy,

The wearing waste of care.

click-clack

2012-01-05T08:40:00.001-08:00

Wanderlust

2012-01-05T07:44:00.000-08:00

It never quits me

On Heavy Repeat

2012-01-04T08:53:00.001-08:00

Wednesday Mood

2012-01-04T08:22:00.001-08:00

Mental Note

2012-01-04T06:53:00.000-08:00

'Nothing about your love life is "meant to be," nothing is "yours forever,"

and it's silly to pretend you had any choice in the matter.

You didn't "let it go." That shit got up and went.'

-coketalk

On Heavy Rotation (still)

2012-01-02T12:31:00.001-08:00

Love Monday

2012-01-02T10:02:00.001-08:00

Breaking Clean

2011-12-25T21:11:00.001-08:00

'Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.'

-rumi

emerging from the depths of silence

2011-12-22T11:55:00.000-08:00

the past three months have flown by.

I'm fully perplexed.

time is speeding at a disturbing rate and I dont like it.

anywho, i'm back from spain -

using a computer again is weird-

and i've missed blogging....

much to share.

happy to be back,

-lu

No more

2011-10-15T01:17:00.001-07:00

Well, I will not have a computer for the entirety of my trip.

This major misfortune delays so much I would like to be working on and sharing - but you take what life gives ya.

Till the New Year :(

This Very Moment

2011-09-24T09:43:00.000-07:00

pack it down

Discarded

2011-09-23T15:26:00.001-07:00

On the subject of timing, I've been suffering from another failed relationship.

I fought for the unattainable.

I'll spare you the sad details

(of our nearing 2 year relationship)

I can't wait for the day when this stops hurting.

I can't wait for the day when this doesn't happen anymore.

I will find that day.

Update

2011-09-23T06:49:00.000-07:00

Well, it's Friday already.

My departure for San Sebastian is this Sunday.

It's all becoming quite real now that I'm packing.

Though, timing can be a damn shame...

for I picked up a nasty cold this week.

(all my energy has been geared towards expelling this bugger)

*disperse-disperse*

These past two months in Chicago have been fortuitous.

From past to present, so much has been brought to Light.

It has been an intense growth process - but all so good.

cleared away the bad - ready for the good.

I can't wait to begin this Job/Adventure in Spain.

What Moves Your Mind

2011-09-22T17:57:00.000-07:00

"Life is one great riot of irresistible fun"

-Maxim Gorky

Salt in a Wound

2011-09-22T09:12:00.000-07:00

Donostia

2011-09-21T08:41:00.000-07:00

Four days till takeoff.

Spinning

2011-09-21T08:22:00.001-07:00

This Very Moment

2011-09-20T15:30:00.000-07:00

a much noticed drift,

nearing her autumnal point.

Love Monday

2011-09-19T08:26:00.000-07:00

'We're back to Respect here and if that is missing, there's no point in holding onto something like that...' - my dear friend Jules

Lost Track of the Light

2011-09-18T17:32:00.000-07:00

'We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingled and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.' Anais Nin

No Fear

2011-09-18T17:11:00.000-07:00

you will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

-colette

On the Turntable

2011-09-18T09:04:00.000-07:00

On Life

2011-09-18T07:54:00.000-07:00

I guess it really just depends on

what kind of story you want to tell.

Classic Chicago

2011-09-17T18:12:00.001-07:00

Shot of the Day

2011-09-15T17:51:00.001-07:00

Real Life

2011-09-12T19:27:00.000-07:00

In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See. -Roethke

Love Monday

2011-09-12T19:22:00.000-07:00

Test Run

2011-09-11T09:42:00.000-07:00

Kneading Flowers?

2011-09-10T12:20:00.000-07:00

Flowers from the Farmers Market,

Conservatory,

and quenching that

Need to Knead.

Healing Energies.

It Just Takes Time

2011-09-09T15:04:00.000-07:00

happy weekend

Wednesday Mood

2011-09-07T07:33:00.000-07:00

In The Shadow

2011-09-06T14:04:00.000-07:00

feeling depreciated, angry and drained from a night of hurtful words.

copious amounts of tea and a long walk has helped brighten my eyes,

though still haunted by the shadows which lain behind.

I'm reminded that I need more people in my life who nurture

rather than enable.

'There is a big difference between being helped

and being treated as though we are helpless.'

'There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium

and will be lost.' -M. Graham

Tomorrow, all will clear.

Inner Compass

2011-09-06T13:20:00.000-07:00

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it.

Action has magic, grace, and power in it. -Goethe

Spinning

2011-09-04T09:12:00.001-07:00

Conscience Mind

2011-09-03T17:21:00.000-07:00

I seem to live by the words of

Lemmy.

Welcomed Revisit

2011-09-01T18:59:00.001-07:00

you're welcome.

September

2011-09-01T14:23:00.001-07:00

This Very Moment

2011-09-01T13:23:00.000-07:00

A Lil'Late Afternoon Fancy-Whiskey Drink.

Mandatory on this Steamy Chicago Day.

Full Of New Depths

2011-09-01T12:31:00.000-07:00

' When you take a risk you may lose...

When you don't take a risk you always lose.'

Open Book

2011-08-30T14:20:00.000-07:00

there's no denying the very distance that keeps us apart.

time for me has slowed now to a vanishing point.

day and night, thoughts of you torment my heart.

all's static.

like the watchful eyes of a neighbor,

a violating presence which i can't escape.

I breathe in all of what we have - and exhale a tarnished hope.

doubts continue to grow with the lack of your

confidence.

there are no short cuts.

only what we can be,

right now.

or maybe I should learn to

bite my tongue

Spinning LOUD

2011-08-29T08:54:00.001-07:00

At Last

2011-08-28T16:23:00.000-07:00

Pizza, Wine, and The Doctor.

Single Behavior at it's Finest.

On the Rocks

2011-08-27T19:17:00.000-07:00

and... my conclusion

for the day.

Antidote

2011-08-27T14:10:00.000-07:00

today, I had to ease my troubled mind.

I do so by going for long walks.

the length spent walking usually constitutes the degree of my worries.

this saturday, I logged four hours.

wandering back and forth across town, up and down oak lined streets,

and gazing out upon the encroaching autumn light.

though, I did happen to meander into a couple spots.

first, a stop at The Buzz for a talk drink of iced coffee.

and then into a thrift shop, where i swooped up this pile of gems.

monies spent: $12 even

the price for soothing my soul?

priceless.

There's No Concept Of Weekends Anymore

2011-08-26T15:01:00.000-07:00

Don't judge.

When its sweltering...

I like my beer over ice.

Mantra

2011-08-24T20:18:00.001-07:00

yep.

On Heavy Rotation

2011-08-24T19:28:00.001-07:00

Captured

2011-08-24T07:20:00.000-07:00

I stumbled across this photo yesterday and I'm obsessed.

If I were to categorize my photographic appeal...

it's of candid, real life moments such as this.

I love that the foreground is out of focus,

the subjects, era, lighting, location.

Perfection in my book.

Add it to the pile of

Snaps in my Life.

Shot of the Day

2011-08-23T09:24:00.000-07:00

A Bookish Fortress

2011-08-22T12:54:00.000-07:00

my 'area'

aka

the sunroom

has become a

smorgasbord of tented spines.

perched fully along the edges of the sofa

like perfect gargoyles.

apparently, I'm not one for bookmarks.

Dream A Little

2011-08-20T18:56:00.001-07:00

9:00pm, saturday night.

ac-cent-u-ate the positive.

Thursday Mood

2011-08-18T08:20:00.000-07:00

On the Turntable

2011-08-17T18:34:00.001-07:00

This Very Moment

2011-08-17T12:12:00.001-07:00

Love Monday

2011-08-15T18:16:00.001-07:00

Beautiful Things Take Time

2011-08-14T18:55:00.000-07:00

'With the Wind comes Fate' -Rilke

Spinning

2011-08-14T13:47:00.000-07:00

Stormy Weather

2011-08-13T14:27:00.000-07:00