Richard Brautigan write things I like, like this:

A Good-Talking Candle

I had a good talking candle
last night in my bedroom.

I was very tired but I wanted
somebody to be with me,
so I lit a candle

and listened to it's comfortable
voice of light until I was asleep.

(From "The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster")

It found me, love that is.

February 20th, 2010
We became Husband & Wife:
Tom Mcgee & Alela Diane Bevitori
It was a day full of all that is good-
All we could have ever hoped for
A beautiful glowing golden feeling...
For love, of love, by love.
!!!

Baking with Townes

Tonight, I listened to this Townes album, which is the only record I've been spinning lately.... and baked banana bread, using a recipe my aunt Diane read to me over the phone.

Late January Banana Bread

1/4 cup butter
2/3 cup honey (I used some Agave syrup too... I was short on honey)
3 eggs, beaten
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups flour (I used 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup rice flour & 1/2 cup almond meal... I tend to be a little random & experimental in my baking)
1 cup chopped walnuts (I used some walnuts & dry roasted almonds too..)
I also threw in some grain sweetened chocolate chips....

Mix together the butter, honey, eggs, bananas, milk & vanilla in a bowl -
In a different bowl, mix together the flour & other dry ingredients -
Add dry to wet.

Butter & Flour a loaf pan. Or grease it, you know... what ever you do. I smear butter on mine.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Put the mixture in the little loaf pan & bake for about an hour...
Let cool (or burn yourself trying to get in on it too soon, like I did)
Enjoy! It's good!

Our Chirstmas Tree.

After getting down and out sick, despite my herbal efforts....We finally had enough energy & seasonal spirit to gather a tree today. We got really into decorating - and as you can see, it got pretty cuckoo...... O holidays.

An attempt to not get sick.

It's officially winter & when winter comes, sickness lingers everywhere. I feel it trying to get me, and I just won't have it. Nope. I've been dosing up on the above several times a day in a whole heart-ed attempt to fool the illness & boost my immune system.........yuck.

O to use hands!

Since we are not touring, dear Alina has been making some lovely jewelry.... wander over there.... here!  Also, If you were unaware:  She & I released a vinyl 10" of 6 original & traditional songs, you can find it..... here! 

Another year has been sung.

I feel like I've been gone for a century.  2009 was a long journey on the rough road. It was a series of dark rooms in hundreds of cities. Suddenly I am back home, and a year has been sung away.  We moved into a beautiful victorian home that has a kind heart.  I am finally feeling settled - And will be settling in for a good long while.  I don't really leave the house, and I am healing.  Writing songs too.  Winter is cold in the North, but we've a wood stove to make fire in. Once more: It's a time for Stillness.