Month: November 2024
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Awaken,” by Naima Penniman
there’s a war going on the first casualty was truthand it’s inside you the universe is counting on our beliefthat faith is more powerful than fearand in that the shifting momentwe’ll all remember why we’re here in a world where…
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Ten Years Ago is Still the Same Today
Feet up against the dashboard, my brother drives, a trailblazing with dust grows behind us. A song rattles along with the shovels and beer cans in the back of the truck, Road signs with faded memories attached to them, one by…
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My Mother
L O V E ❤️ Saying goodbye is harder and harder. And I fear it will always be so.
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Being Home
One classic full throttle evening in my mom’s kitchen- My brother Mat a talkin- My family just hangin- My mom à baking- All of us just a being.
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The Polar Plunge in the Canal
Would you, could you, jump in the canal? Two cousins, had a plan to recall. When they were little boys, They’d leap in the canal, without fear, without fright. with the summer sun high and bright, The water was freezing,…
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A Pomegranate Harvest: A Juicy Family Affair
Sixty years ago my mother planted a pomegranate shoot in her garden that her sister-in-law gave her. The pomegranate tree keeps on giving us ruby red delicious sweetness. Other than just eating the kernels, my mother has made pomegranate jelly…