Category: When the sun shines inside
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7 going on 30
Tonight is the ugly Christmas Sweater party of 2010. I’ve tried to clean the sweaters of their mothball smells, but they still smell a little, so maybe we’ll have to douse them in perfume and cologne and we’ll smell like the 70 year old woman at the office you can smell from 10 feet away,…
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Joni, the great
“I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work, in order to give it back to the people; where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and, you know, makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And…
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Day off
I had the best day today. i watched a little girl in a pink jacket and a blue backpack fall on the sidewalk because she was running too fast (that sounds sadistic to say right after I said I had the best day), but the best part of it was the she picked herself up,…
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Personal Day
I’m taking a personal day because I haven’t finished my coffee yet. I’ve reheated it twice and I’m going to finish it. I’m going to finish. I’m eating warm pumpkin bread and drinking my coffee. I’m watching the storm outside. It keeps flicking the lights on and off, the wires keep tripping over themselves. I…
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Big-girl shoes
I picked up the guitar this morning for what’s seemed like a year. years keep popping up today. I tuned it poorly to itself because it is a solo instrument in my house and has only to answer to itself and me and my fingers that have no calluses on them and my cat who…
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Me day
Sylvia was hiding under the couch. I’ve been looking for her. More like wondering where she’s been. I wasn’t surprised. But now I mean to finish the few poems of Ariel she has left to present me. I woke up a half and hour ago and am already tired. The radiators are power washing the…
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Puddles
If it were warmer I’d jump in all the puddles. It’s a day to be a little girl again. But it’s cold and I’m breathing through my mouth because my nose is stuffy and every step my glasses get fogged up, my hot air rises against me. I remember over the summer when it was…
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shop and beer
I have to go shopping for work today. We do this thing every year for the holidays – we all join together in a big fuzzy, happy circle and are assigned a category, or in my case two, and pick ten of the best gifts, the best items in the valley and I go to…
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last dinner
I slept in my contact last night so it feels like I didn’t sleep at all. It took me a moment to realize that I could see in places I normally couldn’t – the curtain soft in blue light, the books on the nightstand, cellphone and the woken reminder that one of my dearest friends…
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whatever you are looking for
“Whatever you’re looking for in other people, you already have in yourself.” My dear friend said this to me last night at a smoky bar called the saloon. The building is 96 years old, deep dark wood. Green and yellow hues. It’s an old mining bar with a piss trough built right into the floor…