Category: Soul

Free Alterations

I went to the library on Thursday. It’s hard to fully describe this experience, but here goes. I haven’t been to a library in years.  I think I had forgotten all about places like libraries.  Maggie has swim now at a different pool two days a week.  We went early so I could get my…

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Sexy Things

My children show me things on YouTube all the time.  I will admit that I laughed at the little ducks being blown over by the gust of wind, but so much of it is garbage and sort of disturbing.  The woman singing “sittin on a toilet” is reason alone to never go on YouTube again.…

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Unraveling Hem

Hold on, hold on to yourself…this is gonna hurt like hell. Her lyrics are so pure that they actually pull at my soul some times. This is one of those songs and her voice is perfect.  Enjoy. That’s all from the laundry room.  Breathe.

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Rain Boots

  I will miss the rain when I’ve passed on… When I’ve died, gone to the other side, whatever happens when I’m no longer living in my body, I will miss the rain. I’m not sure when I started thinking this way.  At some point I began realizing that I would not be here forever…

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Gansey

When I was young, around nine, my mother and I moved back to New York to take care of my grandmother.  She was diagnosed with breast cancer. I don’t really have many memories of her that are not in a house dress, or gansey as she called it.  She had a mastectomy and back in…

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Penny Loafers

“I would hate to be a lucky penny on the street today.”  ~Maggie Ewens She has a way of looking at the world, outside of herself, questioning and really seeing things. It’s hot.  We live in Arizona and it’s July…it’s hot and it doesn’t matter if it’s a dry heat at this point. Arizona is…

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