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The End is…here????
A couple of “rapture-inspired” friends have done a little post I found really interesting: “In honor of what will, according to Biblical guarantee, occur on May 21st, pal and fellow blogger Delia Knight at threepageslonghand and I (dearlifefu.com) are writing 21 things that must be said before The End. Please join us. These can be serious,…
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The Journey
So I embarked on this journey called The Artist is You Mandala Experience a couple of weeks ago. My friend Cathleene is teaching this. I went into this as a non-artist, meaning my creative expression doesn’t normally come into this arena (meaning paint, drawing, etc). I don’t want to sound too airy-fairy about what this…
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Midnight Blue – a love poem to artists
Art by Cathleene Cienfuegos The color of the sky at midnight is blue. This was news to me. The painting she was creating, as the song on the radioinspired by this awareness. It is these little things that illuminate my holes in perception These things I do not see, feel or experience. I wonder what…
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On the Mat
Subbing a class is not my most favorite thing to do.In fact, it’s my least favorite.This is one of the reasons why: Last week, I went back to one of my classes that I had a sub for the week prior. On walking into class I heard this “Oh good you’re hear.” Suffice it to…
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Grateful
Something I’d like to share is this thing called Spa Week.You sign up with your email address. And twice a year they do a “spa week” where places offer their services for a big discount, $50. Yes, Spa Week will send you emails and lots of them. But it’s totally worth it. Here’s what I…
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May Day
Today is May Day. I have fond memories of May Day from my childhood. Flowers and gardening were very big in my household and the households of my neighbors in rural Whatcom County. Flowers were not hard to come by so it was easy to pick flowers and leave them on the doorsteps of our…
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30 April is National Poetry Month and this is the last poem
Righteous We exchanged ideasYou yelled at how right you areAnd you are rightAnd you are angryAnd your anger is righteousBut I can’t contain or justify your angerI can’t begin to join you in it or go there with youbecause I too, am angry,and my anger can not be contained to just one thingone incidentone injustice.…
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27/28/29 April is National Poetry Month – today is the last day
There is something really amazing about finishing something that you didn’t think you could to. I am letting my last poem come in this evening. But I am finding inspiration everywhere, which says “write, write, write”. 27Twenty-sevenAn age in which I discovered myself again.Decided that certain things were inand certain things were out.InartcreativityspiritualitydivorceOutLiesCovering upSettling forOther…
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25/26 April is National Poetry Month
25Twenty-five: When I decided to move down here to be with you.Never having left my birthplace, family, friends, loved onesand took a risk and jumped.Best decision I ever made.You just happened to be involvedIt would take me a few more years to leave you. And even after all that water,all the therapy, and all the…
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24/30 April is National Poetry Month
Hunk on Table Ten:Where were you four years agoWhen I was slutty?
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