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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Borrowed light (with respect to Sue – )
NOTICE: I did not write this. This was a talk given in our Sacrament Meeting on Mother’s Day. It is the first and only Mother’s Day talk that didn’t leave me wanting to kick walls and chew furniture. So I … Continue reading
Conclavity of the Arts
When I was invited to function as the Mormon Arts Foundation’s Chair of Literature some years ago, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it. Yeah, we make our living in the music biz, but that’s all just working class … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, friends, Fun Stuff, Just life, Making Things, The outside world
Tagged MAF, Making Things
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~enter chaos
Soap Box: Mormon Women drive me crazy. I think they are a little like Jewish women, except without a trace of Yiddish accent—which is sad, because the accent adds charm to the signature guilt, guilt … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, IMENHO (Evidently not humble)
Tagged entropy, home, kids, temples
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Just a dumb day
I couldn’t sleep last night. Who knows why? Just, sometimes, you can’t find the soft place – the place where you sink down and it swallows you. I keep landing on ledges – maybe because I have a yucky full … Continue reading
Every little triumph counts
People always like to think that I am brave and fierce, a thing which is just completely untrue. I’m verbal, which is a kind of armor, I suppose. But I am not brave, and rarely … Continue reading
~in just spring
There was a time in my life when I believed in magic. (If you read this out loud, you must say the word – say “magic”—very softly, as though you are breathing it, and feeling the touch softly on your … Continue reading
Posted in A little history, Epiphanies and Meditations, Images, Memories and Ruminations, Seasons
Tagged lily of the valley, magic, Puck, spring
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Spring color
——=0=—— The tiny harbinger flowers, so delicate – but surprisingly decorated. Snowdrops are like this too, but white with a delicate stroke of green. They’d be gaudy if they were any larger, eh? Years ago – no. Decades ago, … Continue reading
Scenes from the hood –
This is a thank you note: I can’t decide which of these I like better. There is nothing like the deep green of May.
Oh, I wish, I wish, I wish
Okay, so tomorrow is my birthday. And I’ll be really, really old. And usually, I don’t let people get me stuff. I have everything I could ever dream of. Except maybe a basement. But there is something I do want … Continue reading
Three gray old men walking
Truth told, I never did pay much attention to Ludwig Wittkenstein, even after I’d seen Max Dugan Returns for the tenth time. Until Sunday. When he (not Dugan) showed up in Red and Rover and charmed my go-to-meetin’ socks off. … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Images, Just life, Memories and Ruminations
Tagged dogs, G, river path, walks, Wittkenstein
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