http://butuki.com/laughing_knees Sat, 17 May 2008 17:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I realize that I have been away a long time. Lately I am finding it harder to get my thoughts together and to sit at the computer, writing. I start putting a few words down and then just give up. I become restless and distracted, feeling perhaps that the time ... http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/friends-and-community/ Today my blog is five years old. I'm amazed that I'm still at it after my first post in 2003. Since that time the blog worked its way into an important aspect of my life and the way I think. It helped me meet new friends and challenged me to ... http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/year-five/ A pen and ink illustration from a dream I once had. It is also a brainstorming drawing of a scene from a book I am writing. http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/bad-dream-scene-from-a-book/ http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/strange-knees/ http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/morris-the-thin-man/ I stood at the entrance to the train station staring out at the weather. The town dropped down into the grey swirl of low clouds and seemed to hold tight against the wash of cold rain. Streams ran along the street and what few people had left the warmth of ... http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/pouring-rain/ It's like a path out of the mountains that you just finished. You look back and the rain clouds have obscured all signs of where you came from. But if you trace your route back you can find the places where one path separated, or joined, or veered off. I got ... http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/branches/