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random notes on creative nonfiction
I want to uncover from real to real, though I can barely get beyond imagined. The role my supposings play, though, makes it fun: a biography of air, of ants, or aunts, a piece of driftwood once a tree. A foundation crumbles, a cemetery stone speaks. My face in the mirror draws down. I wander … Continue reading
friday thought
It’s not so much sitting down, composed, saying, “What shall I write today?” as it is racing, capturing ideas that surge, foaming, onto shore, before they pull away.
happy portion
For a few years I tried to write prettier – to add flourishes that would astound. I guess I didn’t think I would run into that purple prose problem, because I had tended at first to write so sparsely. Surely, I thought, I could only strengthen my prose by gazing often into gilded, trickled springs … Continue reading
theophany
First I said no. Tim asked if I would come with him to the Theophany service at St. John’s Tuesday morning (7:00 a.m.). I looked at loss – of writing time, of a weekly Bible study at a friend’s home where deer graze outside the windows. I told Tim I didn’t have the energy to … Continue reading
coasting to an idea
Water reflected moon’s shine. White crests and packed sand dimly shown, drawing the two of us from a room of comfort into the chill and gusts before dawn. Feebly I attempted visual capture. But more to the point, the narrative flowing in my head channeled thoughts toward an interesting moment. The writer-learning this past year … Continue reading
remembering John
In the library meeting room interfaith, spiritual, memoir enthusiasts gather. Mom takes her pen, jotting notes from long ago, before Dad, before me. Sorrows and blessings we’re asked to ponder. Hers, the sorrow of a sixteenth birthday weekend. Helping her mother at the junior high church retreat. Her father out on the road with the … Continue reading
Posted in family, memoir, wonder
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eventful
Getting back into my morning routine takes several cups of hot water and a few pauses for reflection. It’s been a full spate of days. What can I say better about the time spent with my hubby than this? For being a nice, breakfast-in-bed sort, I let him browse flying machines to his heart’s delight. … Continue reading
Posted in marriage is cute sometimes, spaceship, wonder, writing
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carried away
Silence can mentor. The wilderness is loud with it. I’m working on another guest blog, wherein I’ll reveal ways blogging itself has helped me write. Last night, in bed early even for me after a day out and away, I pondered the teacherly ways of silence. Three years ago I published my first posts to … Continue reading
Posted in outdoors, reading, thankfulness, wonder
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nascent old woman drifts and dreams
today is my perfection. bright, cold breezes chill the house corner. everyone is gone. the clouds are, too, hurried away to meet others like themselves. the trees have greened. grass is longer in the yard than the neighbors’, and I want to swim in it. immersed in pages turning, I find the ents have mooted … Continue reading
Posted in practice, wonder
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feast on these
A much beautifuller sunrise happened over Spencer Butte and the distant Cascades this past Sunday than Tim and I saw on Easter (or Wester, as our son has started calling the day we Westerners celebrate Christ’s resurrection). This week was the Eastern Orthodox version of Easter, called Pascha. Victoria (recently baptized as Nina) climbed the … Continue reading
Posted in belief, outdoors, wonder
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