Month: October 2009
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What’s New With You?
In the last forty eight hours I have caught up with most of my friends in France: 1) Had an affair and is falling in love. 2) Sold her house for a song she has been wanting to sing, and…
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Golden Harvest
The golden straw after the harvest coats the fields, waves with the wind goodbye, gives way to nesting, the sun sets, another day gathererd for memory. The plane lifts, the earth below like a patchwork quilt, I trace the highway…
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The Last Night Home
My last night home was spent at my brother Zane's and sister in law Joy's home. We celebrated my mother's birthday. Joy prepared the dinner in her new kitchen. My cousin Gene and Kathy came over too, I helped them…
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Gathering Antiques and Friendship
When I was a kid one of my mother's favorite things to do was to take my four brothers and I to find treasures at the junk yard. At that time there use to be a gravel pit outside of…
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The Scarecrow Contest
There was a Scarecrow Contest in my small childhood town. My mom and her friend Holly decided to enter. We knew without a doubt that it wouldn't be you typical Wizard of Oz type of Scarecrow that they would come…
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Blowing in the Wind, The forest that landed in front of my mom’s house
A storm was predicted. The rice farmers raced to take the crop off the fields, not because it would ruin the yield but because it would be difficult to harvest a crop laid out in the mud. Most of…