{"id":3925,"date":"2015-06-03T04:54:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T04:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2015-06-14T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:01:02","slug":"ginger-island-girl-gone-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"Ginger island Girl Gone soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been so tired. Hence, unmotivated, uninspired. But the colds are finally over so I’m working to find some resolve, get some reading, editing, heck, maybe even some writing done this summer. Just used “charm offensive” in\u00a0Botched Mission<\/em>. I sent several revised poems to collaborators Victor Bonderoff and Mark Deutrom. Here’s something island themed, as we prepare to exit paradise. Oh, this image is from Take Shelter,<\/em> a movie I’ve been wanting to see and\u00a0 I’ve been enjoying Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl<\/em>,\u00a0 recommended by my son. ‘Tis indeed “wickedly clever” and “razor sharp.” The novel’s premise could be, what if you gave into every bitchy impulse you’ve ever had? After all, nice is never enough.<\/p>\n

THE HUMBLE MURALIST AND THE REPROACHFUL BUDDHIST
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Island roads are only as long as the island,<\/p>\n

invariably leading to the vortex every island hosts,<\/p>\n

the village or burg hugging the cove or bay,<\/p>\n

the place where sweaty, unsighted, unrepentant<\/p>\n

cocaine and alcohol abusers<\/p>\n

wind up in, gurgle down to rub<\/p>\n

elbows with the vigorous Tilley-hatted,<\/p>\n

swamping the gentry<\/p>\n

with their nasty habit stench.<\/p>\n

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Island roads snake lowly<\/p>\n

through a bucolic landscape;<\/p>\n

swaying grasses, expansive elms,<\/p>\n

lambs, cows, horses, llamas.<\/p>\n

Do not be lulled.<\/p>\n

Anxiety stalks the dales and hollows,<\/p>\n

tamped down, concealed behind neat<\/p>\n

rustic wooden fences,<\/p>\n

skulking in the cottages<\/p>\n

despite a glut of yoga, meditation,<\/p>\n

acupuncture outlets and pottery classes.<\/p>\n

Here there be much intestinal discomfort,<\/p>\n

trembling, ceaseless aspiring,<\/p>\n

straining, toward the light,<\/p>\n

strong belief in our island selves.<\/p>\n

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Dolly for example is the biggest Buddhist,<\/p>\n

the baddest, blackest sheep<\/p>\n

herder on Vancouver Island,<\/p>\n

happily bending over<\/p>\n

for regular shearing<\/p>\n

as long as the tax man<\/p>\n

is tranquil about it<\/p>\n

and she\u2019s back at the ranch in time<\/p>\n

to inject herself<\/p>\n

into the t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates.<\/p>\n

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Her resident good egg Greg studies<\/p>\n

the recommended sutras,<\/p>\n

working on his anger,<\/p>\n

moving past it, out<\/p>\n

of his townie flat to create<\/p>\n

murals in the great outdoors.<\/p>\n

Grandiose depictions,<\/p>\n

towering trompe l\u2019oeil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ostentatious? Yes,<\/p>\n

but they have provided<\/p>\n

our meek hamlet with an angle,<\/p>\n

a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n

Indeed, they have saved us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been so tired. Hence, unmotivated, uninspired. But the colds are finally over so I’m working to find some resolve, get some reading, editing, heck, maybe even some writing done this summer. Just used “charm offensive” in\u00a0Botched Mission. I sent several revised poems to collaborators Victor Bonderoff and Mark Deutrom. Here’s something island themed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}