Saturday, August 6, 2011

Free S.F. Show 8/6/11, Women Rock 5th Anniversary

poster for Women Rock, San Francisco, fifth anniversary show from Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) blog
I'm performing 8/6/11 at 9:40 p.m in San Francisco at a FREE show to celebrate Women Rock's 5th anniversary. See details below on performers, who hail from many genres. Kids' acts start the day. Potluck and grill will be set up. Drinks for sale.

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The Box Factory, 865 Florida St. at 21st St.

San Francisco, CA

Saturday August 6, 2:00 p.m. - Sunday at 2:00 a.m.
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WomenROCK, a women's music collective, is celebrating five years of vitality with a magical free day of music, dance, visual and performance art. The event will be part of MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project). Cosponsored by sfnow.org. Donations can be made to Homobiles, a Safe Queer Car Service open to all (founded by a musician).

Here's the awesome line up for the day (starting with three kid-friendly acts in a row, so bring ...the family!):

2:00-2:20 Revolutionary Girls
This SF tween sensation plays venues like Earth Day and Harmony Festival because there is a message to their music. Listen up!

2:25-2:50 Making Dinner (for kids!)
An all-female San Francisco favorite that has been labeled indie, folk, and pop. Making Dinner takes over the stage the way the smell of cookies baking takes over a kitchen. www.makingdinnertheband.com

2:55-3:20 Essence (for kids!)
In her decade long span as a recording artist, essence has earned a devoted following, sold thousands of CDs, had songs placed prominently in film and television, won international songwriting contests and performed in some the nation's most prestigious venues opening for artists like Tom Petty, Jason Mraz, Shawn Colvin, and Sarah McLachlan. www.essencemusic.com

3:25-3:50 Candace Roberts & The Forever Bridesmaids
In a cotton-candy world of shimmering girl-group harmonies and clever cabaret . our heroine makes her way through a minefield of tubas, handbags and plentiful pork products.
www.candaceroberts.com

3:55-4:15 Aoede
Compelling pop for your heart by a singer-songwriter with an enchantingly quirky soprano voice. Recipient of a "Top Album of the Decade" honor, and "Top Artist of the Year" for 2008, by WomensRadio.com, she is one-in-a-million, but it's not only for the reasons one would expect. www.aoedemuse.com

4:20-4:40 ANANTA
ANANTA rocks her audience with the electric fiddle, cello, beats and hula-hoop in her solo show and her repertoire includes soul, jazz, hip-hop, rock, celtic, middle eastern, indian classical and alternative trance styles. www.reverbnation.com/anant?afiddlehooper

4:45-5:10 Pamela Parker
San Francisco's freshest soul sister, Pamela Parker serves up a blend of juicy, bluesy, soulful, funky music and sets out to deeply touch her audience with songs about life, love, and creating positive changes in the world.
www.pamelaparkermusic.com

5:15-5:40 Vanessa VerLee
For over a decade Vanessa has been a staple singer-songwriter in the San Francisco scene. Her voice stops crowds and her melodies leaves them humming. She'll be joined by her partner in music and life, Jeremy Rourke, a celebrated animator and songwriter himself. www.vanessaverlee.com

5:45-6:05 The Sugar Highs
Playing together for four years now, these two snappily dressed jazz songstresses, Andrea Shippy and Kate Baker, do unique and original tunes as well as classics from the great American songbook. The sound will leave you on a (Sugar) High! www.andreashippy.com

6:05 Introduction of evening emcee, Siobhan "OneMama-ShaBoom" Neilland
Siobhan Neilland, founder of the non-profit OneMama, represents the heart of the OneMama organization. OneMama helps improvised woman have babies safely in rural communities in Africa. Passionate about making a difference in the world, Siobhan created OneMama to show those in need that they are loved and matter in this world. www.OneMama.org

6:10-6:35 The Heated
The moniker of singer/songwriter Cristina Espinosa, The Heated provides endearing lo-fi, yet accomplished, indie folk/Americana. One bar breaks thrown into the center of songs, off-kilter rhythms and unexpected melodies dot the musical landscape. www.theheated.com

6:45-7:10 Bitter Mystics
Smooth and sultry vocals backed by masterful violin and
acoustic guitars energizing original songs spanning genres from bluegrass to folk to pop to swing. www.bittermystics.com

7:15-7:40 Audrey Howard & The Misters
"(These) San Francisco underground scene favorites perform tight-knit rock driven by Audrey's mind-blowing, real-life guitar hero riffage" - Fabulosa Fest // www.audreyhoward.net

7:45-8:10 ZIVA
Born and raised in a small kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley in Israel, ZIVA's music is a blend of rock, pop, jazz and R&B, delivered with powerful expressive vocals, rich harmonies and exotic rhythms. www.zivamusic.com

8:15-8:30 Emily Butterfly
Happily self-employed at Emily Butterfly Productions, she serves as creatress of many genres including: Cartoon Voice Over, Puppet Fabricator, Puppeteer, Illustrator, Story, Song and Script Writer. She performs for children and adults in schools, hospitals, prisons, speakeasies, festivals and clubs and have reached over 50,000 elementary school children in the Bay Area, Ca with a show promoting walking and biking to school.
www.emilybutterfly.com

8:40-9:05 Castles In Spain
Castles in Spain's unique sonic agenda melds tribal rhythms, cinematic and atmospheric vibes and even Middle Eastern and Spanish influences into a sensuously soulful and melodically ethereal style. www.castlesinspain.com

9:10-9:25 Drag w/ Jesse Sangria & Persia

9:30-9:35 Luscious Ladies Burlesque Dance Troupe

9:40-10:05 Lisa B. (Lisa Bernstein)
This singer-poet merges jazz, soul, pop, world, and electronic music with vivid, poetic spoken word. She has released 4 CDs with national radio charting and press, has had two poetry books published, and performed at 80+ venues from the Elbo Room to Stanford University. www.lisabmusic.com.


10:10-10:35 Dana Carmel
Dana's haunting melodies and sometimes unconventional chord progressions have a way of entering your head and staying there for days. She manages to express what you may not find the right words for and in the end you are so happy to sing along to.
www.danacarmel.com

10:40-11:05 Whitney Nichole
Whitney Nichole blends storytelling lyrics and strong melodies for a captivating and compelling soulful indie-pop style. www.whitneynichole.com

11:10-11:30 Maria Konner
Guitarist & keyboardist with the band Sex Industry, Maria will be playing a few acoustic guitar songs. Maria has performed in many spots throughout town either playing with the band, or doing tunes on the piano or guitar. www.sexindustryband.com

11:35-11:45 Rasa Vitalia
Arguably San Francisco's leading highly creative and very unique Dance Artists, Rasa Vitalia performs around the world, celebrating the essence of life with her truly creative dance called "Rasa Dance." Rasa Dance is Global Dance: A unique experience of universal movement through dance & music- The rhythm of life.
/www.RasaVitalia.com

11:50-12:15 bernadette

12:20-12:45 Gabby La La
www.gabbylala.com

12:50-1:15 London Street
www.londonstreetmusic.com

1:20-1:45 Drag with Shaky Gibson, Divinity Fudge & Samatha Klever Samuelroy (and his alterego Samatha Klever) composes his own music, sings, raps and collaborates with such drag queens as Miss Rahni, Kallisto and Lady Bear, along with others.

1:45-2:00 Dance Party


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Monday, February 7, 2011

Poems in Caliban Online #2

Caliban literary magazine print editions from lisabmusic blog
The wonderful poetry magazine Caliban has been resurrected online, and I'm thrilled to have poems from my just-revised manuscript "Post-War Persephone" in its second issue. Check out http://www.calibanonline.com/.

Since I wanted to let folks know of Caliban's foundation, I asked editor Larry Smith to tell me about some previous contributors. He sent me the partial list below, saying, "The original Caliban published from 1986-1996. In many ways, it was a successor to kayak, and many of the regulars from kayak became regulars in Caliban. Raymond Carver was one of our early big promoters. There are many more noteworthy contributors. (We were the first publishers of Sherman Alexie, for example.)" Smith not only was inspired by the pioneering kayak -- he also got a lot of direct help in launching his mag from its publisher, George Hitchcock, who was one of my poetry mentors at UC Santa Cruz.


The new issue is an exciting one, with Rosemarie Waldrop and Colette Inez among others, wonderful visual art, and the unique "Contributors' Advice."

Writers and readers, check it out and send your work. PDFs can be purchased for under a buck. Smith welcomes poetry, fiction, art, and even music and short videos from "those who consider themselves avant-garde or progressive (and even those who don't, but who are serious)."

Here are some of the writers Caliban previously published.

Will Alexander, William Burroughs, Robert Bly, Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein, Lisa Bernstein (Lisa B), Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Raymond Carver, Wanda Coleman, Clark Coolidge, Louise Erdrich, Russell Edson, Forrest Gander, Michael Harper, Jim Harrison, Lyn Hejinian, Colette Inez, Robert Kelly, Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Michael McClure, Tom McGrath, W.S. Merwin, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Antonio Porta, Jerome Rothenberg, Charles Simic, Gary Soto, William Stafford, Louis Simpson, Arthur Sze, Gerald Vizenor, James Tate, Diane Wakoski.


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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tod Dickow's solo on "Center of the Rhyme"

Sax player Tod Dickow I was really pleased to discover that sax-player Tod Dickow recently put up on his site his beautiful swirling solo from my 2003 tune "Center of the Rhyme." Check it out! http://dickowmusic.com/Music/music.shtml (click on tab 2, Samples from CD Recordings; it's at the top of the list).

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Monday, November 29, 2010

The Doug of Edwards: Standards


Jazz supporter, DJ, and activist Doug Edwards from lisabmusic.blogspot.com
Here's the poem I wrote on request and read at the memorial for Doug Edwards at Kimball's Carnival, Oakland, California, November 21, 2010.

The Doug of Edwards: Standards

© 2010 Lisa Bernstein (Lisa B)

He had found a cadence,
a voice to call listeners to the music
and I like others was invited
to step along with him, to enter the tide
of air across the airwaves, the phone line,
the moment of his onstage introduction
and then listen and sing and play
as the music we made floated out
to the world buoyed
by Doug’s support. He was ready to serve
in the army of The Music,
to push off the boat from the shore, sound a 21-gun salute
and then stand there laughing as we sped out.
And he always made the phone call to welcome us home,
to find out more about the trip of the
tones, the jones to scat the next passage, the new poem.

Doug’s was the stubbornness
of a gentleman. He would do you the kindness
of stating when standards were not met, gently if he cared about you,
forcefully if he simply knew you,
but always with courtesy. Standards mattered,
whether expectations for the show, the sound level,
the songbook, the degree of literacy, the way to act.
Doug loved to stress in his introductions whether one was an educator
and he never stopped educating
us – players, listeners, as an elder in a community
that he helped call into being by being here with us.

He died with his usual good timing.
No surgery, no lengthy stay in the hospitals he hated.
In his vet-hospital bed, what he wanted to talk about
was my new job, my parents’ health, and the next gig.
As he’d said two weeks before on the phone,
“I’m just trying to stay relevant.”
In that long telephone catch-up I’d told him about my despair –
what did it all matter
given the state of the music world and what I did?
“If you’re throwing all that around,” he said,
“I’d like to be part of the conversation.” And listed to me passionately
some of what of value I was. I was just one of those
privileged enough to have him defend me
to myself.

Doug hasn’t yet left us all the way. I can feel him watchful, grinning,
shaking his head at the way he would have done this
just a bit differently, but grateful for and graceful with the show.
It’s we the living who suffer
without his real live voice,
not him who chafes now against his ever-darkening sight,
against the difficulty in near-blindness
of getting to the station or the show,
against not having witty company enough hours of the day.
In death now he is not alone,
he sees and walks even with no dog or human arm to link his through,
he has been awarded all the medals of honor,
he has made peace with the wrong-headed and the rude, hearing only
the strong and mournful trumpet, the exactly swinging brush
on the snare, communing with Shirley Horn and Milt Jackson,
and the first blues singers, and still shaking his head
with a proud and easy smile about what we creators do,
just right enough to keep the human project going.

How often do you know that someone gets you?
Doug’s comprehension of my art was like walking into
an airy lavender building
full of gardenias, where the walls would give
space to work, where the floors became a stage for his audience.
How often does someone know where your art fits into history?
He laughed when I complained of not getting the attention
of this or that singer or songwriter.
“How can you even compare yourself?” he laughed,
his warm voice like velvet scattered with the scratch of emeralds.
“You’re in a whole different category.”
It took being that himself to know.

Doug, it’s me who is bereft beyond consoling now.
I wish I could still walk with you
into the control room and read a PSA for you,
hand you a bio downloaded in 14-point bold,
hear you announce Ear Thyme, Jazz Passages, BAJABA,
the Audible Art Gallery, And that’s the way it jolly well goes,
and the latest plans for an award from the Order of the Flask,
amble into Anna’s or Yoshi’s or the billiards place
where Kimball’s used to be for a taste of cognac and fish & chips,
hear your rare, wistful need and relief
when you told a story about Cindy your partner,
dish the latest about Dee-Dee or Dianne, laugh
at the latest foolishness, shake our heads –
and forgive it, setting the world right
with the articulation of standards.
And then get up and walk again, deliberately,
with you The Doug of Edwards, holding your warm, your cool,
your kind, your certain hand.

If you were here now, I know just what you’d say.
“Let’s not talk about me,” you’d say. “Tell me about you.”

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Fellow Women Rock Member in 12/1 Show to Benefit Blue Bear Music: The Independent, San Francisco


Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco is where I got my start as a singer and songwriter years ago, so I'm delighted to help promote a show this Wednesday benefiting the school and co-organized by, and featuring, my fellow Women Rock (http://womenrocksf.wordpress.com/mission) member Bernadette.

The BISS Silver Holiday Ball
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415.771.1422 :: theindependentsf.com

The New Up, bernadette, Crackerjack Highway,
M80 Mailbox (featuring members of ALO and Tea Leaf Green)
Jack Frost (Antarctica/Blackcrack NYC) spins b/t sets

A portion of proceeds benefit Blue Bear School of Music
Doors: 7:30pm / Show: 8pm . Ages: 21+
Tickets: $12 adv/$14 door
Advance tickets available on: theindependentsf.com
Buy tickets with no service fees at The Independent Box Office and at the front desk of Blue Bear School of Music (Fort Mason Center - Building D, San Francisco).

Blue Bear School of Music is San Francisco's leading destination for aspiring musicians of all ages
and all skill levels who want to enjoy learning and playing rock, blues, jazz, folk, or pop. A nonprofit organization founded in San Francisco in 1971, Blue Bear is a place where learning and playing popular music is fun and affordable, where people come together who love music, and where each student's unique talents and goals are recognized and supported. Blue Bear's mission is to provide superior quality and affordable popular music education to aspiring musicians of all ages and skill levels within a supportive and encouraging community. For more info, please visit bluebearmusic.org.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Oakland Tribune Article on Emeryville Poet Laureate Appointments

From Oakland Tribune, October 25, 2010
by Sean Maher

EMERYVILLE -- The city's sculptures and installations will soon be joined by the thoughtful verse of a new town poet.

Janell Moon, a 69-year-old hypnotherapist, was named Emeryville's first poet laureate during last week's City Council meeting, an honor that has her already setting a voracious schedule of plans and aspirations. First on the list, she said, is getting poetry in the hands and from the minds of local students.

"I'd like to work with some of the more introverted children," she said. "And I'd like to bring in a local rap artist to work with some of the extroverts. (The two approaches) make two very different kinds of poetry but they're both very valuable."

Moon finds the metaphors that figure in her poetry come pretty naturally.

After all, she spends her professional life dealing in hypnotherapy and dream analysis, coaxing her patients through the varying levels of consciousness and pulling out the meaning of symbols their minds create.

"My work very much dovetails with poetry," she said. "For example, I might ask someone who's anxious: 'When you wake in morning, what might you think of? Something in your life today or from childhood that would calm you?' Usually when they first wake up they're OK and then a second later they remember all their troubles and then they're anxious."

Their answers, she said, might be that they think of birds in flight, or the bloom and close of morning glories -- an image that conjures a feeling, a foundation of metaphor-based poetry.

In case Moon isn't able to finish her term -- and perhaps to provide a second voice of passion for poetry -- the city named Lisa Bernstein as its alternate poet laureate.

Also known as Lisa B, Bernstein has published two books of poetry, been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, and released four albums as a jazz [note: and soul-hiphop-pop] vocalist.

Bernstein got started as a writer when she was a child; her parents were "artistic folks" and she'd read Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" by the time she was 10.

She lives in Berkeley [note: actually, Oakland] and works in Emeryville, where she is beginning her fourth year as a volunteer running a weekly poetry-writing workshop with second-, third- and fourth-graders at Anna Yates Elementary School.

"You're never too young to be a poet," Bernstein said. "They're loving it, and their teacher is really astonished they're writing so much."

The children recently began learning how to use comparisons, Bernstein said. One young poet began a poem by describing herself as "mad as red glitter," progressing until she was "happy as a garden" by the end of the poem.

Both Moon and Bernstein said they hope to continue working with children and to publish an anthology of local poetry by young authors as part of the laureate program.

Emeryville Mayor Ruth Atkin said she is delighted with the new program, which reinforces and expands the city's already prevalent outdoor art program and its commitment to the arts in general.

The two poets will do a reading together Dec. 17 at Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley. For information on the event, go to www.expressionsgallery.org or call 510-644-4930.

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Poetry Reading in Monterey, Calif., Tuesday 11/9 at 7 p.m., for the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium

Maria Garcia Teutsch from Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) blog Maria Garcia Teutsch

The Monterey Bay Poetry
Consortium Presents:


Lisa B (Bernstein)
&
Maria Garcia Teutsch

Tuesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
East Village Coffee Lounge,
498 Washington Street, Monterey
$5.00 Admission

Poet-singer Lisa Bernstein (Lisa B) is the author of The Transparent Body (Wesleyan University Press) and Anorexia (Five Fingers Poetry). Her poems have appeared in 60+ anthologies and periodicals, including The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, Ploughshares, Calyx, Brilliant Corners, Field, City Lights Review, Zyzzyva, Antaeus, and Feminist Studies. She has won creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Puffin Foundation and was just named the alternate Poet Laureate of Emeryville. Lisa B is also a jazz-soul singer-songwriter incorporating poetry into original songs and standards. Her latest CD of four is The Poetry of Groove (2009). Raised in Santa Cruz, she lives in Oakland. See http://www.lisabmusic.com/.


Maria Garcia Teutsch is Editor-in-chief of Ping-Pong magazine. She also serves as president of the board of directors of the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, Ca. She is widely published, and has three poetry chapbooks, Surrender Dorothy, Fractured Fortunes, and there are no cars on this highway. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Hartnell College. She is an MFA candidate at New England College.
Upcoming Events:
Dec. 14---Diana Garcia and Jim Powell

For more information, please contact John Laue:
(831) 684-0854
Cosponsored by the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium, Poetry Slow Down on KXRA540,
The National Writers Union, Chapter 7, http://nwu7.org/


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Friday, October 22, 2010

Appointed Alternate Poet Laureate of Emeryville, Calif.

Emeryville, California, logo from Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) blog



I was just appointed alternate Poet Laureate of Emeryville in a two-year term, the maiden voyage for this position! Janell Moon, the new Poet Laureate, and I will be reading with one of the judges, Joyce Jenkins, at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley, 12/17/10.

Almost all roads seem to lead to Emeryville lately: I recently became an editor/writer for an Emeryville environmental engineering firm and have just begun my fourth year of teaching poetry-writing in the city's public elementary school, Anna Yates.




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Friday, October 1, 2010

Kumar Lived in the Flat Below Mine

cover of "Kumar" from Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) blog
Kumar lived in the flat beneath mine  in what I called Bernal Depths (just off Mission Street, in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights)  in the mid-1980s. He was a skinny, smart, sweet, energetic guy in career and personal transition who had about him an air of mystery. We talked sometimes on our shared porch steps and went out to dinner once, but both of us were so busy that our mutual regard and affection never blossomed into a deeper friendship. His presence was both enshadowed and supportive in those months. I had just begun singing, was finding my footing with managing my diabetes, and was immersed in various turbulent and exciting romances, and Kumar could be relied on to smile widely and warmly and to share insights about life whenever our paths crossed, while still pulling an invisible curtain around his activities. Not long after, he moved without leaving much of a trace.


More than 20 years later, Kumar found me online and we began a sporadic correspondence. Then, in late summer 2009, he asked me to work with him – first as a clairvoyant reader and healer, then as a writing coach. I discovered quickly that the warm and sparking spirit I had glimpsed in the ’80s had endured some harrowing suffering before, during, and after that time. Yet he also had since learned a great deal about the contours of his body and soul, gained success in his career, and created a satisfying marriage. I was thrilled to be in touch again, relishing his agile mind, sweet heart, and questing spirit. And I was pleased by the great deal of talent I saw in his writing  a brand-new pursuit, and gift to himself, after years of relentless effort in the high-tech industry.

Beyond our work together, our delayed friendship found its footing. Kumar introduced me to his wife Jenifer via a lovely dinner South of Market. I confided in him on the phone about yet another dramatic romantic episode of mine, reminiscent of what I’d gone through more than two decades ago. He revealed that he was trying out a new medicine to help manage depression, but that his doctors feared it could cause a seizure because of some other physiological conditions he was managing, so he couldn’t drive himself anywhere for a month. Then he was given the all-clear. We had plans to hang out in a coffee shop after Thanksgiving. “You’d really like to do that?” he asked, with the guilelessness of a kid.

Then there was a silence of a few weeks between us. Too silent and too long. Kumar was gone. A seizure had caused his death.

I was robbed of the friendship that we were finally to have.

And yet now I have a gorgeous book: Kumar: A Love Story  stories and poems by Jeyakumar Shanmugam along with paintings and an introductory memoir by Jenifer Bacon, his widow and a longtime accomplished artist. Bacon also designed the book with unusual flair.


Bacon’s introduction reveals the intimacies and rewards of her challenging relationship with Kumar through evocative prose as well as journal and email excerpts. Kumar’s stories, augmented by a few poems, portray a childhood marred by vicious abuse from his father; wartime experience with Americans that’s both amusing and touching; the sometimes hilarious perspective of an adult newcomer to the U.S.; and the internal life of a suburban worker grappling with drug use, rage, and recurring painful memories – all of it conveyed with a well-constructed grit and accuracy that strikes at the reader’s heart. Bacon’s paintings dynamically illustrate a journey to “put some visual form to what it might be like after we die,” subject matter with which she had been “struggling for some time, long before Kumar died...imaginative landscapes of what we cannot see or even feel completely. This great mystery that someday all of us will experience."

Get the book from blurb.com at http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1558143




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copyright 2010 Lisa Bernstein

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Autumn Vibration

Resetting my vibration at that clear autumn thing: we catch sight of the bridge to darker days yet still turn in the heat and light...

copyright 2010 Lisa Bernstein

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