A future self as glimpsed in a poem by Grace Paley:
“Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that’s who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration [...]
Today like any other day
Today like any other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Rumi Tweet
Always this
On the gravel drive, a sleek-skinned slug moving slowly, antennae swiveling about. A bumble bee, flying along side me as I run its wings moving a thousand times faster than my feet. Horses in the pasture, does at the edge of the woods, a new fawn, thrushes, blackbirds on the wire and buttercups by the [...]
certain things keep on in their own fashion without us
I don’t know how to reclaim any kind of balance now and so this is what I do instead: I list the day, one thing after the next. The white herons, a pair, that fly overhead as I drive on a flood closed road, water licking at the front door of a white house the [...]
It is enough to simply notice this
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keep looking »I am Christina Rosalie
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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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