Spool
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: do you have any new memories?, he was not ready, dream, we the people, but first the table of contents, he [...]
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Jan, 2025
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Jan, 2025
Believe in Magic? How Could I Not?
The prompt for this poem came from Suleika Jaouad's Isolation Journal. The inspiration is a poem from Dean Young called Belief in Magic and I've stolen his first line for [...]
10
Jan, 2025
Leave It To The Bees
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: face, United States, queen, xerox, tundra, nectarine, hail, cat, vermin, isolation Jenna stretches out in a small patch of sunlight [...]
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Dec, 2024
Solstice Thoughts
2024 has been a mixed bag—like every year, I guess. I was blessed to have the resources to remodel my kitchen! It was a long, messy process, unpleasant at times [...]
12
Dec, 2024
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. As you may know she is one of the many manifestations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, who has deigned [...]
6
Dec, 2024
My Mother’s Orange Tree
Once again, allow me to share one of my favorite family stories. . . On December 7th, 1941, my mother was at her friend Louise’s house. They were picking the [...]
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Nov, 2024
Thanksgiving Prayers
This Thanksgiving I am grateful for family, friends, home, and the beauty of wilderness so close to where I live. I pray and affirm that we are a kind and [...]
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Nov, 2024
Lost and Found
As Thanksgiving approaches, I decided to share again this story from last year, a tale of abundance, gratitude, joy. Susan lost her glasses one morning, early before seven o’clock, while [...]
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Nov, 2024
When the Past Isn’t There
Written with the prompts: pull, how would you. . ., not sadness, more like frustration, tired of red, scent of lavender and stone, it was practice, by their silence, [...]
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Nov, 2024
Election Thoughts
When I was a child, I was lucky and I didn't know it. No one close to me died. When I became a teenager, my grandfather died, and I [...]