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Quick Before Summer is Over
14 weeks since my last entry? Jees! Well, as I posted on my facebook status just moments ago -- it's facebook's fault. I have become a daily user of that place.. posting links and thoughts and the occasional photo. It's easier and more in the moment than here at livejournal. More people can read and comment. I'm thinking of going with a ( Read more... ) -
I Am a Material Spiritual Girl
Did Madonna ever do anything like "I Am a Spiritual Girl" later in her career? I think it would be appropriate. I'm okay with Madonna ( Read more... ) -
Numbers For a Change
47: number of years I've been Denise Aileen Cottingham, come June 2nd ( Read more... ) -
Another National Poetry Month Poem
Poem for Fern Ridge Library
Read then, if you will,
and in the springtime of your reading
the pages will shine with pale fire,
like new alder leaves in sun.
In their secret way they grow
and gather as you turn them,
they remain with you,
they rise up close around
like blackberry thickets in midsummer,
a wilderness of leaves
you're lost in. Turn, ( Read more... ) -
Pre-face = pre-facebook?
Dear Brother, Parental Unit, Evila Elf, JES, and perhaps JP and Shrie? I have not abandoned my online journal. Prose is alas, still alive. I use it in my ink-on-paper journal almost daily. And in the occasional solo-audience email.
"Prose generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme which is typical of poetry; instead it is composed ( Read more... ) -
National Poetry Month Poem of the Day
Hunger by Sarah Gambito
I had a canoe that took me into the forest I read about. It was fleet and I asked no questions. I saw the careless embroidery of the sky above me. I was small. I was embracing. And I was dear all my life. My instrument is silent. I never learned to play. But it sits poised in my arms like an amber deer that I'll give my life ( Read more... ) -
Recent Haiku
our favorite pens
and lonely socks are somewhere
laughing at our loss
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Little Work Ancecdote
Conversation between two librarians where I work:
"It sounds familiar."
"Yeah, it does sound familiar."
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On Senility
On Christmas Eve morning (2008) my father read the following passage to us from "Emmanuel's Book II, The Choice of Love" intro by Ram Dass, compiled by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton:
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(question:) "I don't understand why people become senile."
(answer:) "Senility is the answer to the soul's prayer. More often than not, its advent sets the ( Read more... ) -
Inaugural Poem by Elizabeth Alexander
I made my momma's excellent Boiled Raisin Cake in honor of Inauguration Day yesterday. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but when I make her recipes they never seem to turn out as good as when she makes them. I found out what allspice is yesterday, right after I borrowed some from G.'s mom who lives a mile away.
I liked the poem Elizabeth ( Read more... )