Birthday Poem
Sep 25th, 2006 by jenzug
Every once in awhile Bryan puts on the Woo, as we call it around here, and sweeps me off my feet. On the actual day of my birthday, Bryan was working in San Jose, but he flew home late that night. He set a gift on the bed for me, and at first glance it looked like your average coffee travel mug. But it was actually a create-your-own type thing, which he used as a template for this painting and poem. The image is a painting he did on his tablet pc using the art rage program, tracing this picture of Ruthie I took at the ocean in April. He wrote the poem to the right (click on the picture to get a larger view).
Be warned: what you see here is not my best work. It is what Anne Lamott describes in Bird By Bird as a series of “shitty first drafts.” Blogging dragged me kicking and screaming out of creative constipation by getting me to actually write. So I do that. A lot. Without worrying about every word choice or comma placement.
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