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“This is how you find her: / hands clamped around the broom handle / like a bulldog’s teeth, / working the far corners of the room / till the dust spins around her….” ~ from Jennifer Highland’s “Sonya Sweeping” in DONE DARKNESS Recently, I spent a weekend on a retreat with a group of ladies, and …
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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. ~ from The Forest for the Trees, by Betsy Lerner There it is, my reason for writing. So much of what I scratch down on paper stays hidden within the pages of my journals, becomes buried in …
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At almost 100 years old, our Grandfather clock stands with authority in our living room. Its inner workings are simple, but delicate, and when I don’t pay attention – when I let the weights wind their way to the bottom – the gears stick. Only a silent prayer and a gentle nudge of the minute …
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