I have been thinking of something my friend Madelon Bolling once shared with me, I think way back in my dissertation days at the UW: “Try to spend a little time every day imagining the unimaginable.” I want to imagine taking a trip to the British Isles (including Ireland, where my friend Cherie Langlois snapped […]
A picture of my mother, pregnant with me (seated, just left of center and staring straight into the camera), with 8 of her 10 sisters and a sister-in-law. (Oh, wait — 7 sisters and one niece.) I don’t know where my older brother is (napping?) but he would be very close in age to the […]
After doing laundry yesterday afternoon (climbing the steps several times) and attending daughter #3’s choir concert in the evening, I spent the night in agony. About two o’clock I finally succumbed to all the pain meds I had taken and fell asleep. This morning, predictably, I feel groggy and not much inclined to work on […]
I want to reblog this wonderful post found on FRIDAVILLE. “What Do You Do?”. Especially, please, please, click on the link to the poem by Charles Bukowski. Perhaps it will speak to you the way it spoke to me this morning. Let me make it easier: Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”