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• Love Sent in Many Ways

  

  (featured: Peeko on the couch, having a quietly relaxing morning with his Mama) * I was really sad to hear of the earthquake in Turkey today. I was maybe better prepared to hear it with a lovingkindness dream last night, of myself being lifted up in love and carried, before I saw the news or…

  02/08/2023 3:30 pm

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• Sewing Surprise, Novel Neatness, Painting, and Miscellaneous

  

  (Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…

  02/07/2023 1:43 pm

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• The Literary Salon Goes On

  

  September 17, 2021 A snapshot from Tuesday I said to Peeko, ”Make your literary salon face!” (snaps photo). The Tuesday literary salon is still May Ziadeh’s, not my own, that she hosted in Cairo and had to stop hosting unfairly in 1930, due to the custom then with her parents no longer living and being…

  09/17/2021 8:32 am

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• Morning in Boston, Night in Australia, A Multi-National Online Poetry Reading

  

  A Feature from the Archive, August 14, 2021 It was a memorable poetry reading I co-hosted today ‘From Boston to Oz’ with my long-time poet online friend from Adelaide, Australia, Deb Stewart who had the idea for the event and invited me. 🙏😊 And yes that was a book of hers on my shelf Slow…

  08/14/2021 2:06 pm

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• An Unexpected August Adventure, A Fairy Might’ve Just Wandered In

  

  Aug. 4, ‘21 This is a very rich true story and no more length will be added to the blog for a little while. I took the bus late afternoon today to have my eyebrows threaded and on the way I noticed the open door of a small performing arts theater I hadn’t remembered seeing…

  08/05/2021 6:53 am

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