How does a full-grown human learn to express exuberance? Perhaps it is not possible to retrieve what was once lost, but this program of recovery comes close. The more I practice being “as a child,” especially when I take steps […]
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The Innkeeper’s Christmas Eve
Fix It, Please!
Remembering Sam R. Breedlove, June 22, 1915–December 24, 2005, and Alma Ellen Anderson Breedlove, May 2, 1916–December 3, 2006. We wore out the book titled Fix it, please, and the phrase wriggled into the family’s speech. A roller-skate broken or two […]
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a speck of dust a grain of sand one after one two piled on two day follows day and builds into months years of accretion crush fossil to dust a faux pas not mentioned a truth tinted pink a falseness […]
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Olive drab is basic pain, endless hikes in drizzling rain. Blue is Christmas TDY, raucous joy so I won’t cry. Red courage stains on desert sands, youth drained out in cruel lands, white-knuckled fear, all fossilize this PFC with gaping […]
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