Month: May 2015
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Carrying Your Kindness with Me
As I walk I carry your kindness with me. As I walk along the river, letting it carry my feelings that are too heavy, holding on to your kindness instead. A reflective sacred time.…
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Sweet Mother’s Day in France
Today is Annie's birthday, it is also Mother's Day in France and yesterday evening Annie went into intensive care. I long for her to have peace. I pray for gentleness. My thoughts only hold her. Annie, my dear Annie. (Thank…
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Down by the River
Down by the river, beyond the gate, a dirt path winds this way and that, between the chestnut trees, the sunlight filters through the leaves, creating lace-like shadows on the ground. The water rushes by and it…
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Roses in May
Roses in May remind me of making rose jam with Annie. "May is the perfect time" Annie would say, "to pick the tender grape leaves." (For dolmas.) The last day in May is when Annie celebrates her birthday. Today…
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1900s French Scrapbooking or it Seems
At the brocante stuffed in a box, or piled on the ground in some disregarded fashion of unimportance there will be books. The book titles are not the focus, usually, these books are religious by nature, or…
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What Kitchen Thing do you Collect?
Added a rug. I guess when the walls, cupboards, drawers, tabletops… cannot hold anymore the floor becomes the newest center piece. When we renovated our kitchen I had the carpenter cut a long narrow horizontal line along…