Month: January 2024
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An Apple Romance
Take an apple and caress it on your sleeve until the delicious golden sunshine beams. Core the center (by piercing around the stem), creating a golden bead. Interweave the autumn jewels:…
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Jet Lagged
3 am In bed Not sleeping thoughts stirring, rambling, reflecting… but not dreaming.
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Family Affair
We met up for dinner that started with hot chocolate at Cafe Rendez-vous, an old-fashioned style, classic friendly place by the catacombs in Paris, with a direct metro to Chelsea and walking distance from our apartment. Gabriel knows the bartender;…
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Gabriel Words that Echo in my Heart
As I was leaving to go back home, Gabriel came to me as I opened the door. "Vavie, I love you more than anything, more than everything, more than the words I know." I bent down to see his heart…
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Small Kindnesses in the Holy Temple of Life
Small Kindnesses I’ve been thinking about the way when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a leftoverfrom the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are…
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A View From the Plane
Flying into Paris the countryside showed off its nature patchwork. I pulled my back while letting my suitcase, so the flight back home was painful. The healing wonders my grandchildren’s greetings, and of a bed.
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