Tag: place
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Journal (As I Remember): Day 3
10 June 2022 The first toll of the 9 am church bell wakes me up, and I rise from a tangle of covers thrown off in the night. It’s been warm, and I have not yet come to terms with air conditioning. Our cousin Jaci comes over while I am still washing up in the…
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Journal (As I Remember): Day 2
June 9th 2022 I wake up around 6:30 from dreams of being here and walking around the neighborhood with family. I write my dreams, and then scroll. I learn that a family friend from lopez had family who came from outside Budapest once upon a time. I do my watercolor journal for yesterday, open the…
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Beginning in Budapest
The sun is bright this morning, bursting out of a rich blue sky. The cars roll by in the streets, and the church bell tolls at half-hourly intervals. I can hear the buses screeching to a halt on their rails and the constant exhalation of air conditioning in our apartment. I’m sitting next to tall…
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Shoreline says…
Shoreline is the in-between place. The place that is just before and just after and exactly where earth overlaps water. Shoreline is wild and serene. It is the place I go to grieve and the place I go in joy. It is a place that soothes despair and washes aways frustration and anger. Shoreline replenishes…
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Coming Home
In transit between Albany and Seattle, I wrote a poem about the kind of home I want. I wrote the to-do list of big-little events of living in that home. I wrote about the technicalities and the maybes and the what-ifs, and spent most of the past few months thinking about where this home could…
Scatterseed Remembrance 