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The Life of Pi
It’s still with me. I watched the Life of Pi two days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. By night it flashes through the filmy velvet of my dreams. By day my head is a rapturous kaleidoscope of...
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Softly
Where are you now, Grandma? I see you softly drifting on the brink, curling into the filmy line between this world and the next. Today I said good-bye to you for the last time. Inadequate and...
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The Girl and The Tree
My husband and my daughter planted a tree together last year. It was her tree. It was gnarly bare all winter long. And then surprisingly on a late winter’s day, it blossomed. On her birthday. There...
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I Won’t Forget September is Your Birthday
My grandma was like a warm spring breeze. So refreshing and always ready to caress you. She would greet you at her front door with a trademark ‘Hull-ooooh!’, followed by a squeeze so tight you almost...
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Little Lion Part 4
Little lion wakes up next to me every morning. His little body curls into mine just like the day he was born. I still remember that day. How I carried him to my bed, an hour old. How he tucked himself...
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One
We’re one but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other carry each other. ~ U2 It was our wedding anniversary yesterday. Eleven years. We’ve done so much in that time. We’ve lived through...
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The Last Day of the Year
It’s the last day of the year! A day of reflection. There’s this need in our human psyche to cleanse ourselves of the old, and to beckon the new. But when you think about it, tomorrow is just another...
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Her Last Day
Death is at your doorstep And it will steal your innocence But it will not steal your substance But you are not alone in this You are not alone in this …. we will stand and we’ll hold your hand Hold...
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The Butterfly Wall
There is a wall on a building on the other side of the city. It is covered in a mural of butterflies and cocoons. It bursts with colour and life. We’ve been going to this building quite a bit lately....
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Little Lion Part 5
Little lion isn’t so little anymore. His cherubic cheeks have become angular. His legs are tall like stalks. His head stretches nearly to my chest. And his roar is mightier than thunder. But when I...
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