Waiting

... for Mother God to give snow like wool and to scatter frost like ashes. We have been told by the National Weather Service that we are in for 20 to 30 inches of snow beginning now.

Looking up...

While doing so I am listening to my iPod on "shuffle." Here's what happens when my music library comes at me unmediated:

"Easy to Love" by Billie Holliday
is followed by
"Don't Drink the Water" by Dave Matthews Band
is followed by
"Eight Days A Week" by the Beatles
is followed by
"Baby Can I Hold You" by Tracy Chapman
is followed by
"Longer Boats" by Cat Stevens
is followed by
"The Red Thread" by Lucy Kaplansky
is followed by
"Blue Prelude" by Patricia Barber
is followed by
"Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?" by Po' Girl
is followed by
"Diamond in the Rough" by Shawn Colvin
is followed by
"We Learned the Sea" by Dar Williams
is followed by
"Leaving On Your Mind" by Patsy Cline
is followed by
"Leaving" by the Indigo Girls
is followed by
"Lady Be Good" by Ella Fitzgerald
is followed by
"Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones

reminding me of all the women I am...