Category: Pictures
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I Choose Water.
Most every day, since the fall of 2019 (northern hemisphere), when I took Reiki and learned the symbols, I have been blessing my drinking water. I pour it into my water bottle, draw the symbols on it, then hold it in both hands and repeat my mantra three times: “I love you. God bless you.…
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Haven’t Been Making Any Shoes Lately
I’ve been distracted trying to stay out of the undertow while the waves keep coming. Still, I am in Hawaii so I shouldn’t complain. (Speaking metaphorically, of course.) Actually I am in the northeastern United States in October and the leaves are peaking. The heat finally came on, and all is well. I thought of…
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Communion
Emma is on her knees digging in the garden as he sleeps, and she can feel when he dreams about her. Their hands press together, palms open. The bottoms of her feet burn with an intensity of feeling that suffuses her body. A world away he is loving her, and she barely breathes, allowing him…
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A Story for Mothers’ Day
My mother and I have not been a part of each others’ lives for 13 years, and I think we both agree that this is for the best. However, for a few years, when I was in my twenties and early thirties, we were actually quite good friends and shared some good times together. This…
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8.21.02
[Context: I had run away from home (for a week. yes I did set a time limit. mother of two after all–maybe not the best, but the only one.) because pretty much everything I had built my world on–my belief in what was the right way, who were the right people…the right according to everything…
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Sharp Bridge Campsite, August 2002
It dawns on me that I have a tendency to expect too much from people. More specifically, I expect them to be “better” than I am–more enlightened, more understanding, more generous. I don’t expect this from everybody, but I do tend to expect this from those I admire, and often from those whom I love.…