Tag: childhood
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David Keig: A Christmas Tree! A Christmas Tree!
A Christmas Tree! A Christmas Tree! by David Keig A Christmas tree! A Christmas tree! With dark green needled memories Of childhood dreams and mysteries Wrapped present-like in front of me. A Christmas tree! A Christmas tree! I glimpse a past wherein i see The child that then grew into me Not forward fast but…
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Ghosts of Christmas Past: Part 3–Getting Here From There
Back To Part 2 While I was baking cookies with mom last week, she asked me the kind of question for which she’s infamous: which three Christmases were your favorite? I laughed. Her memory is selectively perfect, by which I mean if it matters to her she recalls details of times and events with the…
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Cats, Hemingway, and Me
I was catching up on on blog posts I’d bookmarked, things that caught my eye on busy mornings or late nights to which I had attended to return long ago, when I came upon this one from Millie Ho about Art, Edward Gorey, creativity in general and–if you read between the lines–a whole lot more.…
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Christmas Traditions–Part 1
My ardent followers and weary friends will certainly attest to my love of most things Christmas, not to mention my enthusiasm for Christmas-themed posts. It didn’t come out of nowhere–which is a fancy, literary way to say that it did come from somewhere, like just about everything. To cut to the quick, I wasn’t the…
Old Road Apples 