I want to write about friendship. I have learned from a very knowledgeable confidant that our friendships are related to our attachment styles. We develop these styles based on our very first attachment, or bond – with our mother - the human being out of which we emerged and upon whom we depended for our … Continue reading Friendship
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A Portable Paradise
A poem by Roger Robinson And if I speak of Paradise then I am speaking of my grandmother who told me to carry it always on my person concealed, so no one else would know it but me that way, they can’t steal it, she’d say. And if life puts you under pressure trace its … Continue reading A Portable Paradise
High Altitude English Garden
Any gardener in Colorado will tell you that growing at our altitudes is very challenging. In Denver, we sit at an elevation of 5,280 feet, hence the Mile High City. Geographically, we are described as a high desert, as in not much water. However, I have a friend who has defied the odds and created … Continue reading High Altitude English Garden
A Short Story
A number of challenges have arisen lately, both with my lung function and with some of my friends. It has been in my nature to figure out ‘why,’ determine a reason, choose a course of action then put my understandings in a box, and close the lid, thereby sealing my conclusions and point of view. … Continue reading A Short Story
feline adoration
The first cat I ever loved sauntered out of the woods and onto our porch. She was a lovely calico. Didn’t talk much but always came bearing gifts. Field mice were her specialty. To my knowledge, not a bird lost his life in her jaws. In the morning, we would discover her fresh gift-mouse-entrails on … Continue reading feline adoration
Throughline:
a common or consistent element or theme shared by parts of a whole After my story called “Paradigm,” an old friend helped me unwind the threads of the beliefs I had adopted as ‘truth’. The most affirming part of our conversation was her admitting to her own Inner Critic and how she copes with that … Continue reading Throughline:
dark
When friends stop responding to texts or emails, they call it ‘going dark’. My last story, “Paradigm” must have been ‘dark worthy’, or…TMI…or no time for reading...or my readers were out enjoying these summer days. Or…perhaps it was the part about my naivety in not realizing I had a sociopath/narcissist for my first teacher! I … Continue reading dark
paradigm ***
A standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something. (The images are simply ones that show the fun I have when doing photography. They have little to do with this story. There are captions under most of them. If you don’t feel like reading – enjoy the pictures. 😊) "COLORADO … Continue reading paradigm ***
Mending Wall
I love the humor and whimsy in this poem by Robert Frost The images are from walls in Massachusetts and Kentucky. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun; and makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is … Continue reading Mending Wall
kentucky joy
This is a story about my experience of Kentucky, a place I had never been. It is a place of paradox. It is a land of lush beauty. It is a land that has supplied our nation’s hunger for tobacco and alcohol. It is a land of tragedy and survival. These photos reflect a lovely … Continue reading kentucky joy
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