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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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The Lime-Tree Bower
For one Christmas soon after we moved to my husband Jim’s ideal home, over the course of many weeks I painted for him a large bowl. On the underside is a deep green-blue sea filled with cetaceans (I would not … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Loss
Tagged color, family, green, leaves, lime-tree, love, poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sunlight
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