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Easter Without You

Posted on April 16, 2022 by O

What can I say? It all came down to nothing this year. Without you. Last night I missed the Good Friday service. I was too tired after cleaning the house. I guess a clean house meant more to me than … Continue reading →

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God Ripped Out My Garden But Gave Me Back My Heart

Posted on June 23, 2021 by O

I sat at the top of the basement stairs last night in case the house blew off the ground. The storm was that bad. I can’t say I was terrified but I was a bit worried. Mostly about paper things. … Continue reading →

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Will the Snow Make it Better?

Posted on January 31, 2021 by O

Why come back to a page in a book, or a blog or a pad of paper? Why come back to the scraps on the desk noting things to do like clean, brush teeth, cook, finish an email or shovel … Continue reading →

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Shall I Try to Reach A Higher State of Consciousness or Drink the Cherry Wine?

Posted on March 21, 2020 by O

I told my sister the other day that I was profoundly interested in exploring my solitude, now imposed on all of us.  I told a friend that I was embracing solitary confinement with sadness but that I was going to … Continue reading →

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Blue Christmas, Blue Birds, Blue Water

Posted on December 23, 2019 by O

I walked to church yesterday for the Blue Christmas service.  I wore that very expensive coat I bought twenty years ago as a Christmas present for myself, and, at the time trembled as I gave the card to the cashier, … Continue reading →

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The Blue Whales Are Coming

Posted on July 16, 2019 by O

I sat out there in the garden just a while ago.  And while the world outside was raging in hot winds and fires and pestilence and murders and all sorts of heinous human things, in the garden still, now and … Continue reading →

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Was it the Scrambled Eggs, the Sun, or Yellowjacket lying on the Windowsill?

Posted on February 23, 2019 by O

I don’t know why but I feel happy again.  This morning.   I did not sit in the chair by the red Chinese lamp brooding.  Staring out the window missing the massive Elms that used to rise up in the air … Continue reading →

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Potatoes, Pasta and a Handful of Tears

Posted on January 26, 2019 by O

I won’t talk about the weather anymore.  But that’s hard.  Because it makes you feel crazy when one day it’s forty degrees and the next eighty-five.  When your garden suddenly jumps up crazy wild before your eyes.   That happens here.  … Continue reading →

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Sleeping in a Bed of Incense

Posted on January 14, 2019 by O

Oh someone is breathing down my back again.  Sending icy chills down my spine.   I can feel them even in my stomach, lungs and heart.  What’s left. This dark dark week when I feel like I’ve already been sent to … Continue reading →

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When Your Mother Had Holes in Her Socks

Posted on November 29, 2018 by O

I woke up at 3:00 a.m. today.  And I don’t know anymore if today is really today. What is today.  Not even sure it merits a period or a question mark.  Or maybe just a blank space.   All the … Continue reading →

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