Christina Rosalie

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This is true:

Listen. What you hold with your hands is everything. Possibility. Opportunity. Joy. What you hold are hold the fragile wings of something that arrives in the night and then slips away, leaving only its slight carbon footprint on your sill; or the small body of a sparrow that’s just hit the window. Or maybe you [...]

The things I carry:

Today I carry the feeling that I’ve slipped right back to the cusp of more things not being known than things that are for certain. I am carrying the way the light looks over the pacific ocean in the morning at Bodega Head, and a homesick feeling for my fathers hands; for the way they [...]

What would you ask for?

“She’d been so sure a crap liquor store would not stock French cigarettes just because you asked. The shock every time she went in, and there they were. She was used to taking the world as it was, she’d never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it.” ~from Paint It [...]

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    I am a writer, mixed-media artist, idea starter, stalker of wonder, finder of four leaf clovers, and mama of boys. ...{more}

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    White wine and woodsmoke; the ritual of sitting outdoors and writing as the sun goes down. My Felt bike + riding every weekend. Wearing my hair in loose braids on the weekends. Vanity Fair on my iPad and watching my son learn to read. Finding inspiration for long car rides and lazy weekend afternoons at in AnOther and Audiofiles. [MORE ...]
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