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A Tidings of Magpies: In Praise of My Bed
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A Tidings of Magpies. Monday, April 20, 2015. In Praise of My Bed. At last I can be with you! Since I left your side! The labor of being fully human,. Working my opposable thumb,. Talking, and walking upright. Now I have unclasped. Unzipped, stepped out of. Husked, soft, a be-er only,. I do nothing, but point. My bare feet into your. Feel your quiet strength. The whole length of my body. I close my eyes, hear myself. Moan, so grateful to be held this way. Labels: 24 HRS NSICU. Hooray to the sleeping gods.
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A Tidings of Magpies: My Old Aunts Play Canasta in a Snow Storm
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A Tidings of Magpies. Friday, December 6, 2013. My Old Aunts Play Canasta in a Snow Storm. I ride along in the backseat; the aunt who can drive. Picks up each sister at her door, keeps the Pontiac. Chugging in each driveway while one or the other. Slips into her overshoes and steps out,. Closing her door with a click, the wind. Lifting the fringe of her white cotton scarf. As she comes down the sidewalk, still pulling on her. New polyester Christmas-stocking mittens. She says, no business at all. The cof...
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A Tidings of Magpies: Evening at a Country Inn
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A Tidings of Magpies. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Evening at a Country Inn. From here I see a single red cloud. Impaled on the Town Hall weather vane. Now the horses are back in their stalls,. And the dogs are nowhere in sight. That made them run and buck. In the brittle morning light. You laughed only once all day-. When the cat ate cucumbers. In Chekhov's story.and now you smoke. And pace the long hallway downstairs. The cook is roasting meat for the evening meal,. And the smell rises to all the rooms.
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A Tidings of Magpies: Those Swingin' Sixties
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A Tidings of Magpies. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. I am a woman of a certain age and coming up on another changing of the decades soon. What concerns me most is maintaining my health, but what comes as a very close second is "What should I wear? Just because a person can fit into certain clothes doesn't mean they should wear them. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to look like I'm trying to be 20 years old again, but I don't want to look like a character from the Dinette Set. Some days it's hard. The w...
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Success is not falling over, maybe. – allisonjacobsdance
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Thoughts on dance, art, education, and empowerment. Success is not falling over, maybe. March 23, 2015. March 23, 2015. Some of my favorite classes to teach are my adult ballet classes. I love the sense of community and friendship. Most of the dancers fall into two categories: never danced, but it’s on their bucket list or danced when they were in elementary school, but never since. First and foremost–big round of applause to everyone. You have to be really brave to try something new! With that in mind, ...
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A Tidings of Magpies: Father and Daughter
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A Tidings of Magpies. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. The wedding ring I took off myself,. His wife wasn’t up to it. I brought the nurse into the room. In case he jumped or anything. 8220;Can we turn his head? He looks so uncomfortable.”. She looked straight at me,. Patiently waiting for it to sink in. His truck in the barn,. His boots by the door,. It took a long time for the taxi to come. 8221; he said. 8220;My father just died,” I said. As if it were a destination. Labels: 12 hours. NSICU. But some of us.
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A Tidings of Magpies: Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents
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A Tidings of Magpies. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents. The spirits of children are remote and wise,. They must go free. Like fishes in the sea. Or starlings in the skies,. The shore where casually they come again. But when there falls the stalking shade of fear,. You must be suddenly near,. You, the unstable, must become a tree. In whose unending heights of flowering green. Hangs every fruit that grows, with silver bells;. Where heart-distracting magic birds are seen. Mother to...
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A Tidings of Magpies: Heavy Summer Rain
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A Tidings of Magpies. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. The grasses in the field have toppled,. And in places it seems that a large, now. Absent, animal must have passed the night. The hay will right itself if the day. Turns dry. I miss you steadily, painfully. None of your blustering entrances. Or exits, doors swinging wildly. On their hinges, or your huge unconscious. Sighs when you read something sad,. Like Henry Adams's letters from Japan,. Where he traveled after Clover died. Lie shattered on the lawn. Mother...
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A Tidings of Magpies: Saturday in CinCity. The CollegeGrrrl Guest Writer Edition.
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A Tidings of Magpies. Saturday, July 16, 2011. Saturday in CinCity. The CollegeGrrrl Guest Writer Edition. Suspend reality and basic common sense as I invite you to Eastern StandardTime Hospital. Many of you have shown interest in my job as a Mental Health Associate. This is probably due to the serious life-saving work that my fellow co-workers and I accomplish. Hey, coffee doesn't drink itself! 1 How long at the hospital? Okay, this one is a give-me since they keep a file on you. Here is where 100% of t...
