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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Sometimes gold is everlasting and sometimes it touches down to earth and then disappears into darkness. Sunsets lately have featured bursts of blinding gold that quickly dissipate to orange and into black. I often watch them while touching the … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Loss
Tagged Fields of Gold, gold, grief, photography, poetry, postaday, Robert Frost
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Learning Curve
Last January one of my daughters shepherded me through the relatively minor technical work needed to begin this blog, giving me a nicely calendared progression of posts upon which to reflect. Recently I found on my husband’s computer the 500 … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Love and Loss
Tagged 2012, A Beach Bouquet, anniversary, April, August, calendar year, death cab for cutie, Debruary, December, DP Challenge, friendship, January, July, June, kindness, Kyoto, March, May, My blog start, November, October, photographs, poetry, September, The Things He Carried, Weekly Writing Challenge: Wrap it Up
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A Broken Link
I went back in time, through many dozens of posts, after being alerted that one of a post’s links no longer worked. In repairing the link by finding another iteration of the same late-in-life Kurt Vonnegut interview, I could not … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Love and Loss
Tagged Bill Moyers, comedy, death, depression, depressive personality, faith, Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, philosophy, poetry, soul, tragedy, Winter's Tale
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Fever’s Edge
A few nights ago I was running a respectable fever and was utterly miserable. The plates of my skull seemed to shift; fireworks went off behind my eyes; the supply of tissues was exhausted long before my sneezing fits ebbed. … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Loss
Tagged Billy Collins, dreams, husband, insomnia, loss, memory, pity party, poetry, sleep
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Love in the Spaces 