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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Lollipop Lips

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They were Four, Five, Six and Ten, or if you prefer, they were Green, Yellow, Blue, and Red, their mouths that is, the wonderful colors ...

Excuse Me, Your Honor

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I rose to ask a question feeling unsure, a bit ill at ease like Bob Cratchett asking for coal or Oliver asking for more porridge excuse ...

Sunning on the Sandbar

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Four ducks, before mid-morning sitting, facing the sun, wings hugging against their bodies sitting still in the sunbeams warming the san...

Fading Slides

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Long forgotten memories were preserved on the thin skin on the slides in the trays in the box, crushed years ago at the back of the clos...

One-Eyed Dog

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I remember him all so vividly like it was so recent far fewer than the close to forty years ago that it actually is My grandfather bough...

Forgotten History

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A discovery in the boxed memories forgotten history of childhood, adolescence, years gone by pearls in the oyster treasures in the dark ...

Boxed Memories

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There were boxes every shape and size attic, basement, storage space still, quiet, frozen in time forgotten boxes of shards and fragment...

Frozen Water

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The camera caught the water froze it at a moment of time preserved as drops, bits of eternity etched right there on the square of film ...

Another Step

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Another step on a long road to keep them safe, to build our family, one step at a time to do what it takes, go through the process, th...

Blueberry Stories

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A moment of panic assuaged by the promise the musing, the utterance Oh, she’ll come back, with “Blueberry Stories” And she will, she to...
Friday, August 11, 2006

Growing through the Wall

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Morning Glories this Morning

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Sing

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Oh if I could sing sing like you with that strong bright voice share my joy in the singing reach for the note, find my voice send a chi...

Fly Away

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Pollen Party!!!

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Ablaze in all her Glory

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Sunset behind the Piton

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Arc of the Palm

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Now that is a Cathedral

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Castries, St. Lucia

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A month of poetry

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Today marks 31 days in which I have written and posted 151 new poems, taking the site from 525 poems to 678. I also added 100 new photograph...

Easter 2005

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His Telephone Voice

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I heard an echo of it, as I spoke to a prospective client it was his voice his telephone voice a decibel louder an octave or two lower ...

Watch out for the Bees!!!

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Negotiating

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Negotiating, drafting a compromise, agreement meeting of the minds hand-written and informal tweaking the formal the proposed, the type...

Not Yet Sleeping Beauties

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We giggled and laughed at the bright pop of the flash in the dark bedroom a little family fun right before sleep hiding under covers h...

Bursting into Bloom

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Feather on a Screen

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Gravida

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She was a gravida Now, Don’t get upset, that’s the technical the term of art so the records said What does it mean oh a pregnant woman...

Flower update - 8/9/06 9am

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

A "Cool" Blog - 76 Degrees South

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While checking out some random blogs, I landed on this one. Looks worthy of a revisit... life on an ice sheet in Antartica... http://76sou...

Sticky Stalactites

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Pine sap running down a brown needle hanging suspended in air a small speck of wonder frozen for those who look see the miracle, the be...

More blooming - 080806

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A Single Message

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She shared with me scripture, she read this morning answer to her prayers, I showed her scripture parts of the lectionary I read this m...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Practicing in the Darkened Chancel

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Casting a clear shadow

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On Guard

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A Walk in the Woods

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sitting at the end of the dinner thinking of a walk in the woods just before fall not in the deep unfamiliar thick forest no something f...

Tea Ring

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Not coffeecake though they evoke memories too no it was a tea ring, cinnamon, raisins, white icing and a maraschino cherry sitting cool...

Beginning to Bloom

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A Face in the Curtain

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A face smiled at me from across the room caught in the shadows and folds of the floral patterned valance above the window in the bedroom...

Returning the Elements

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After the communion returning the elements to the ground gently sharing the bread, the wheat the blood, the vine to parched giving soi...

Circle of Life (Web)

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We are connected one another, every moment, every place, every cell, every movement, every utterance each action, reverberates echoes, ...

The Intimacy of Informality

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Words not rituals casual, heart-felt words telling the real story of the greatest sacrifice in all of human history finding words to sp...

Singing the Mystery

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That the light of the earth, light from heaven was snuffed out suffered humiliating all to human death that he rose miraculously, as i...