Monthly Archives: March 2010

Corkscrewed into being

Corkscrewed into being: Leah supposed that sooner or later people seek their own kind no matter how much they want to be alone.  Being alone is fine for a while.  Right now, she needed something else.  People brought this unknown quality out in her.  It might be something she’d never find peace with but...

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Hiroshige’s dream

Foxes waiting under a moonlit tree to become human have only parcels of land and the domed shadows of trees.  Do you know this as despair?  We all learned that the West was the frontier. As the...

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Abundance of wildlife is the norm

Our bones, our stones, our baskets of shells  and every place a place for feathers  because it’s not safe out there anymore.  We know before the storm of flowers  the world was only brown and green,  the gods plentiful as pollen before pollen made the scene.  The artist paints pale animals  in isolated squares...

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tell it like it is

Tell your story, your fears, your concerns, your love, your joy – but tell it like is and listen to yourself. Let the people around you know that you’re happy again or that love has found you or that your loss, the loss of your friend has gripped you so and you don’t know...

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Words can help

The thoughts and words of those that have written about grief and resilience can be a help. Sharing your story is a good first step. This site is about the transformation of our silent pain into a mosaic of shared realities.  We keep weaving our stories with the threads we have.  “Although words cannot...

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Threads

“We must lose our mothers.”  That’s what they say. The words of my mother’s friend Sarah are always returning to me, like a Greek chorus, like the Miami Beach blues.  “We must lose our mothers.” If we must lose our mothers, do we also have to hear these words echo in our memories reminding...

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