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nesting with Neruda

Lovely one, With a nest of copper entangled On your head, a nest The color of dark honey Where my heart burns and rests, Lovely one. -Pablo Neruda, from Lovely One Tonight, I was reading the words of my favorite poet, whose collection entitled Cien Sonetos de Amor has, in my time, served as my dearest friend, and tear catcher and ...

lists of five.

Hello, there. Nice to see you again so soon. Look. I am going to be straight up with you. This just happened: That's right. I wrote a post, the program stopped responding, quit and did not save my work. This is now a test for me; a test in brevity. In my original version of this post I went into the whole ...

So sad

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered and the blue stars shiver in the distance.' The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her..." -Pablo Neruda *** Tomorrow, it will be one week. One week since I got a call from a ...

On writing.

This morning, as I straightened up my kitchen, I found an old picture that I had developed; It was a photo of Ernest Hemingway, aged and bearded, writing with a pen on a legal pad. *** Recently, I found a journal that I had kept as a child. In it I had proclaimed that I wanted to ...

#febphotoaday/14

14. Heart A little girl, walking hand in hand with her grandmother and great-grandmother. Be still my heart. "I love you only because it's you the one I love;" -My Man, Pablo Neruda

Wordless Wednesday: The SLEEP Edition

As in, my precious, sweet, lovely, happy baby girl is a fabulous sleeper, as long as she is cuddled up next to me, resting her head on my shoulder and holding my hand in hers. Yeah, remember that whole sleep issue? No? 'Cause you can totally read about it here and here and here and also right here and totally here and yes, here and ...