Category Archives: family

The Martini tree

The Martini tree, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. We are not a big Christmas family. We are, as you have probably noticed a big Halloween family. Our tree has skeletons, eyeballs, bats and Nightmare before Christmas ornaments. Also–Mary Poppins and Fairies and Princesses. Why? Because magic is everywhere if you only take a moment to see it. Sometimes magic… (more…)

“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.” Martin Luther King

  Is it me I’m mad at or am I just feeling angry in general? I have this thing I do sometimes that used to be great, used to be lots of fun and really wonderful and exciting and creative. But now it isn’t. Now it makes me feel guilty.  Now it doesn’t work anymore or mostly. And it hasn’t… (more…)

“Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.” Paul Valery

  Everything in its Place I want a clean and orderly place to sit and think, or make a thing. I want an unstained and fur free couch to watch The Doctor or turn a page. I want an unmuddled and chaos free desk to sit and write  or play at being a movie maestro. I want a sterile and… (more…)

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. ~Toni Morrison

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. -Toni Morrison, Beloved Emily’s Valkyrie Hey my girl, My moppet, my colt, my brilliant amazing daughter I need you to know from your toes that recall the third place… (more…)

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle

The other side of the Rainbow I won’t just hope or wait for the day when I can see your registry and change my mind three times over what present I want you both to keep from me for years. I won’t just hope or wait for the day when I can see you exchange rings in that great hallway,… (more…)

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre

Night Sounds   The entire house sighs. The day has ended for child, cats, husband is ending for me. But I hold on for a few minutes of no dishes clattering, no dryer bleating the call to hang up shirts no rattle of papers to read, initial here, agree to volunteer to. No groan of office or grunt of chair… (more…)

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