Today, a guest post on doughnuts by Gina Martin. If any of you follow Gina’s Home Joys blog, you may have read this post there at an earlier time. If so, it’s worth a re-read. Makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Her experience is SO what would happen to me, and I […]
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This is my friend Sandra and I. Sandra cannot hear. She was born that way. Although she can read and write, she can speak no more than a few words of English, and a few of Spanish. Her spoken language is like birds flying, all motion and grace. No sound. I marvel at the flexibility
Going through the papers on my desk, I found the copy–folded and crinkled and doodled upon–of the prayer I once prayed in a dedication service. I wondered, when I found it, how I could once have made such huge promises so wholeheartedly. It does not look easy, looking at it now, not easy at all.
I took a charter flight north: Wasaya Airways flight WT926. No luggage screening, no masses of people clicking briskly down moving walkways or hunched over iPods, no carpeted jet bridge for boarding. Just six other people and I crossing snowy concrete and climbing the metal stairs of the plane. Red Lake first, we were told.
I’ve been thinking a bit about the past year, not pinning anything down, but allowing the thoughts to swirl through the back parts of my brain where I dream and intuit and change. Last year didn’t go as I planned it. I was going to have Turtle Heart with a publisher this year, but I’m still
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