Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
One Woman's Quest II 
I hope you will be able to be together, safely! I love your Santa Christmas ornament!
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Thanks Eugi!
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Wishing you healthy happiness … however the logistics materialize! What a delightful Santa ornament – is he as soft to the touch as I’m imagining?
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He is carved from wood, I think. Thanks Jazz. Hope you have a good one.
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I hope you can share Christmas with your sweet and most thoughtful family. I am on my way to see mine. Masked and fingers crossed. 🙂
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Enjoy, Andrea. Breathe in all that preciousness.
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Oh I am. Everything else – all the worry – just melts away.
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I hope you will–if it can be done safely.
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Thanks Tanja. We do too!
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How lovely that your granddaughters were able to decorate for you.
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It really was sweet. They are five and nine.
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I’ll bet they did a sparkly good job.
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We’re all back on the merry go round! Nice that your granddaughters decorated,
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Yes we are! We’re dubbing this the perfectly imperfect Christmas.
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It is that!
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