Category: Love
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Saying Yes to No
Today is a Wednesday night. B and I are trying something new to ensure our creative selves are nourished. I’m calling it Maartsy Time (for now) and we are making ourselves take at least 30 minutes, off the TV and our phones to create. I will be writing and he will be painting and sketching.…
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Hope is Perspective
It feels like 2025 has lasted one hundred years and yet here we are, not even 6 months into my golden year. We’re still here, and as is the case with life in general, it’s been a mixed bag. Some truly awful historical things happening and yet some genuinely wonderful, if bittersweet triumphs in our…
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Ok, Fine
An actual update is due. It’s been Vagueville City for a while, I’ll pull back the curtain just a tad.
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The Prettiest World
I think this is the prettiest world–so long as you don’t mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have its splash of happiness? – M.O.
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June
Nothing Gold Can Stayby Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
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Zig Zag Life
Well hello there, 2023! Is it just me but does 2020 to now just feel like one really long year? A few thoughts and potential blogpost ideas swirling in my head but haven’t had a chance to put them down for single theme posts so I guess this is where I shall place them. I’ve…
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You Again
I had that dream again. Dad was in it. Younger Dad, the version of him from my high school years. The first time I had this dream months ago, his passing was a cruel mistake. It turned out he hadn’t died after all. The mystery of why he was gone and returned was never answered…
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No Older Than This
I’ve (perhaps selfishly?) decided that the image I will keep Dad in my mind is this, somewhere between his mid-50s (when I was still in highschool) to his mid-70s when he was still driving and not needing a cane to help him get around. I’d forgotten this version of him that existed before his health…
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