Owhere can we be?

The Owhere site is moving to a new location.

The new Owhere site is at:
http://owhere.oppenhuis.com

We now have our own domain, so this venerable site that was hosted on WordPress.com will eventually be retired.  No complaints at all about WordPress.com, as they are an excellent hosting platform, and indeed we are still using WordPress blog technology for the new site.

I’ll probably transition some of the content from the old site to the new site, particularly the Tarot related pages which seemed to be the most popular.  I intend to vary the content on the new Owhere site a bit more, as my interests and explorations may wander due to will or circumstance.

So the theme will be:  Explore > Wonder < Repeat!

Kind of feels like a Dr. Who moment, regenerating his body and revamping his Tardis!

 

Thanks to all the visitors to this version of the Owhere site, and I hope you’ll take a peak from time-to-time on the new Owhere site.

In the immortal words of Groucho Marx:

Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay, 
I came to say
I must be going.
I’m glad I came
but just the same
I must be going.

Bow to the Wow

We are bags of bone, blood, and bacteria.
Propelled and compelled by passions, programs, and periphera.
Guided and misguided by dogma, karma, and criteria.
Are We Not Men?!

Good God. Mad God.
Good dog.  Bad dog.
Bow to the Wow!
What’s all this, then?!

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Return to Forever

Went for a bicycle ride through my childhood neighborhood.
Time and place merge with each rotation of the wheels.
Wheels of fortune and misfortune, of discovery and passage.

Fingers stained purple from the old mulberry tree by the graveyard.
Still fruitful after all these years.
Some berries sweet and juicy, some bitter, like memories.

So I return and reach for more.
Through the barbed wire, through the graveyard.
Return to Forever…

Return to O-where

Some images from our recent pilgrimage to O-where, May 2010.

The quietest moments often echo the longest.

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At dusk each day, scores of ravens would glide over O-where (in groups of 2 to 6), to gather for the evening in a nearby roost.

Cholla cactus with fruit.  The desert flora are gratefully responding from the heavy snows of the previous winter.

Curious lizard

Wolf spider on side of tent (we think it may be a Carolina Wolf Spider, Hogna carolinensis)

Ah… the magical glow of O-where…