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Listen, Ophelia
The English Professor took umbrage with me and my manuscript. He said he had never seen anyone do this before! It was unheard of! He called me an anarchist. (I had to look up the word because I was not quite sure what was meant. One who overthrows is an anarchist.) He had read all…
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Invite The Heavens
It is a sacred alliance, this familial connection. So much depends on it. What happens within four walls is more important than what happens on the outside. What is happening in the world at large was predicted when my generation went out the front door to kindergarten. Character is formed within the first five years…
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Kiss The Moon Winner!
Kim J is the winner of a copy of Kiss The Moon, The Woman Speaks and Gives Grace. It has been an interesting time for me and I am delighted for Kim to have this book. I hope it will become a favorite for her and she will indeed find our gender and perhaps my…
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Kiss The Moon —a favorite poem
Abundance In my abundance I come to you. In my abundance, I love you. This love shackles you not nor binds you tightly in chains. It gives you freedom to soar where your spirit wills and in the same abundance finds you winging back to me. Run quickly from a love which possesses by need.…
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Kiss The Moon Poetry Book Drawing
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 I will have a blind drawing for my book of poetry called Kiss The Moon, The Woman Speaks And Gives Grace. These poems were written during the infancy of the woman’s movement in search of equality. What has evolved is a generation of young women who would not let anyone…
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Become The Friend
When the burlap arrived I began to learn how to work with the fabric. My first attempts were successful because they were the tried and true ones that I used with ordinary fabric. This wall quilt was the first attempt to write directly on the burlap. It became a quilt that built itself as I…
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The Road Hardly Ever Chosen
A Teacher Spoke. . . . you spend time patching up the grill work only to find that the holes are supposed to be there for that is the way it was designed. That is where it is you are. That is where we have come and there is no turning back but straight on …
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The Plough Sits In The Field
The Plough Sits In The Field There was a time, however brief, when the unthinkable was avoided at all costs and the unworkable was left by the side of the road. Nowhere could we say that the heart was not involved; but lost on us all were reasons. Now we wait. The plough sits in…
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Peacing and piecing
When I ordered the bolt of burlap on the eve of my 83rd birthday, I wrote that I did not know what possessed me to do it. It seemed like the right thing to do. So I started working with it and did one wall quilt and then another and another. I am ‘at…
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A Certain Place And Time
There is always one relationship in any lifetime that becomes more than was ever hoped for. It stands as a beacon and throughout all life it is felt and tried as the perfection of what particular relationships should be. It is to be kept in mind, when one wishes for a relationship to develop and…