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Living at full velocity.

Tonight

Today I feel the earth has tilted on its axis farther from the sun. The air tonight is cold, and the earliest of the maples are vermillion on the hillside. Monarch butterflies have been everywhere in the past few days. They fly in their delicate aimless way from flower to stem along the roadside, and [...]

Self Portrait Tuesday: The enclosed space of sadness

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Saturday Notebook

The autumnal bird migrations have begun, and last night we watched them fly across the golden sky, each bird a small winged fleck of gratitude. I am alive. Yet my heart aches at the loss, and at the wonderment of my own self preservation. Like Penelope, I keep returning to the spool of memory, unraveling [...]

Friday Notebook

Know this: Your life is precious. YOU are precious. Carry the gift of your life in both your hands with utter awe and gratitude. Everything can turn in a moment. Everything. I’m sorry I can’t write more–I’m not sure about this medium of blog when it comes to matters of deep crisis and privacy, but [...]

Wednesday Notebook

Have you ever felt like your heart is outside you, irretrievably scattered like the thousand small pieces in some jigsaw puzzle without a box? Was it like this? Coming home after hours (like decades) away, and your little one doesn’t want to accept your hug, and then calls for Daddy when you’re putting him to [...]

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  • I am Christina Rosalie

    Hello. I'm so happy you've stopped by!

    I am a multimedia storyteller, digital strategist, idea starter, stalker of wonder, finder of four leaf clovers, MFA graduate student, and mama of boys. My first book,

    will be published by SKIRT! Books in September, 2012.

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