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Recent Blog Posts
Poem: angry ancestors
Poem: angry ancestors

I could see

my future

in shapes of her bones

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Poem: Ages
Poem: Ages

Many rocks under her boughs.

Not erratics. Gathered, placed.

Carefully. Perhaps lovingly.

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Barbara and Judy: Sidekicks for Life
Barbara and Judy: Sidekicks for Life

As we walked along the path, I felt a quiver of carefully concealed excitement. Who was this woman walking next to me, and did we really have anything in common? I felt comfortable and relaxed with our conversation, other than feeling sixteen again and knowing that I sort-of liked someone who sort-of seemed-to-maybe kind-of like me too. Even my vocabulary had taken several steps back into stammering insecurity!

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The Healing Power of Gardens
The Healing Power of Gardens

Slowly, her overwhelming grief and loneliness started to clear from her mind, if only temporarily, as her eyes fastened on to a dandelion amongst the scarlet runner beans, and then she spotted a fledgling thistle trying to crowd out the gladiolas. This recognition pushed further through the mental miasma that she was experiencing.

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A photo by Everett Baker, a river in summer.

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