I can faintly hear a man singing The Star Spangled Banner. It’s coming from the middle school across the street. I find myself crying. I’ve been doing that a lot these last few days. I’m torn and suffused by the truth that absolutely nothing stays the same, pierced by the truth that everything is […]
Ninth Grade, Summer Daze
September 3rd, 2008 · 15 Comments
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Doubting
August 29th, 2008 · 15 Comments
I was upstairs this morning making some various art messes and as I was painting pages in my art journal because I thought that might get me into the creative flow (which feels tantalizing close these days but I’m not quite immersed in it yet) and as I was painting I watched thoughts go by […]
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Lost and Found are the New Black
August 26th, 2008 · 7 Comments
I read the most beautiful poem in LIFE IS A VERB by Patti Digh last night. I love this book - Patti has taken what could be a hackneyed subject — how would you live if you had 37 days left? - and made it sing through her deep heart and generously wonderful writing. The poem that […]
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