Month: October 2024

• October 21st, 2018 

  There are twelve of us here today.  The “Sacred 12”, you call us.   A couple days later, while waiting for my flight home to Colorado, I’ll text the group-in the thread without you on it- with some reflections from our weekend together and my thanks. In the emotion of it all I will mistakenly flip my…

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  October 21, 2024

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  cancer, death, family, friends, friendship, hospital stories, life, loss, love, sisterhood, writing

• PLAY (with words) 

  I’d prefer to mince them: like garlic; pungent and clumsy,  fingertips sticky with innuendo and truth. the words might linger, might stay with you long after their consumption.   but since you asked and honestly, I think it’s time you knew, I don’t play. and not for the reason you’re thinking, not because I’m a grown-up  and have…

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  October 12, 2024

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  adoption, adult adoptee, games, laughter, play, play on words, poetry, word play

• the color of light

  1. there are rainbows in the kitchen sink. I can’t explain them, except to say they appear there from time-to-time just above the slippery wet silver, arched + perfect. today I am self-regarding enough to wonder if the precocious prisms realize I’m here too: do they see or sense me as I see and sense them? their pulsing…

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  October 5, 2024

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  art, color, light, poetry