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(Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss) Wordless Whispers
Can you capture a kiss, in a photograph or in words? Oh, sure, a wedding kiss is among those which can be preserved on film. The wordless whisper of a kiss can be memorialized on canvas. Auguste Rodin carved … Continue reading
(Weekly Photo Challenge: Home) Longing and Belonging
During the past several months I’ve probably given more thought to the idea of “home” than I ever had before. “The Glennon family was home,” said Uncle Randy at my husband’s memorial service, referring to Jim’s purchase of his very … Continue reading
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Tagged grief, home, Jose Saramago, Marlynne Robinson, Mumford & Sons, postaday, tagaday, The Cave, Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
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Seeking Solstice Solace
Winter Solstice fell on a Friday. A church bell, its percussive cut-off left to linger to its unmuffled end, pealed in remembrance of twenty children and six educators who were alive and beginning their elementary school day just a week … Continue reading
Chasing Sunrise
On your very next birthday, I’ll give you the moon On the end of a string, like a golden balloon . . . When our children were young and birthdays still held the magical power of persuasion that the earth … Continue reading
