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fotos: pilgrimage
June 22, 2012
Welcome, Pilgrim Here is your sign Here is your road your heart, traveling companion, precious cargo through dangerous territory.
letting go…
June 20, 2012
The boys are headed to summer camp today. It’s an hour and a half away, sleepover for three nights, mosquitos, s’mores, mud, poison ivy- everything a boy could want. If you’ve never packed for three boys under 12 in anticipation for overnight stays somewhere outside […]
cheating…
June 13, 2012
Yesterday in the car and out of the blue Miles blurted out, “Mom, do you ever worry that Dad is cheating?” It’s not the first time my 7-year-old has asked about things he really shouldn’t know about. It’s hard to be the youngest of 4 children, especially in our family. I admit I lose track […]
morning reflection…
June 9, 2012
“It’s amazing how we will never really see ourselves the way another person sees us,” Riley pondered as we drove this morning. We’d been to a portfolio review for a school she’d like to attend. One of the assignments was to do a self portrait. As I drilled her on what the teachers asked and […]
fotos: being there
June 8, 2012
This space I populated with young plants in early Spring ready, and not quite ready, to root- to bloom- to open their leaves- to the sun’s hard work but there it was within a month, like breath- like prayer- like promise- a rush of color on carpet and concrete.
What’s a girl to do?
June 7, 2012
I have been so world weary lately. Elections and legislation fights, mudslinging, celebrity sightings, political gossip and pollution, the war on women, what’s a girl to do? I’ve always thought that the operative word was “do.” What can I do? What will my elected officials do? What will Snookie do? And I keep coming back […]
metaphor
from the Latin. metaphora,
from Gk. metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word,
lit. "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
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on sleeping and waking…
June 24, 2012
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep. From Essential Rumi […]