Category Archives: REALITY

REALITY? & WRITING: Environment

Posted on July 17, 2004 by Susan

There are some things we need to know, we need to see, we need to feel. I learn by watching, seeking meaning in events beyond my fingertips, within the circle of my vision, what is ruled by that outside of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fall Semester

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Susan

Like bands of single gypsies our children pack their wagons with the growing coolness of the mornings, it is something sparked by the sooner setting sun that sets them on their path. Restless, anxious, off they go to hone their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Moving Pictures

Posted on July 15, 2004 by Susan

The fast falling thin rain invites a squinting look within binoculars of hands to reveal a 1930’s scratched and jumpy movie reel of life. Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Married Things

Posted on July 14, 2004 by Susan

He married me because I make him laugh, he says. My somber pessimistic pride is hurt; where have I let a laugh or joke slip in? It is out of my control it seems, for dopiness is natural endowment. He … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Religious Fervor

Posted on July 11, 2004 by Susan

Church on Sunday, church on Sunday, I’ve got to go to church on Sunday. Early Mass is in the native language of the people, the established few who built it, left their names engraved on plaques on pews, stained black … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Are We What We Eat?

Posted on July 9, 2004 by Susan

At the next door neighbor lady’s last night for dinner, we were served roast beef and spinach with brie cheese in green wraps, cream of zucchini soup, red wine and fresh strawberries with cream. Heavy with pleasure fulfilled I fell … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Breakfast Bar

Posted on July 7, 2004 by Susan

I must admit, some children’s restaurant habits do annoy me. Scrambling over who has more, and only then of what they like. Pushing orts of this and that less tasty thing around and off the tray, like broccoli perhaps, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Buzzzzz

Posted on July 5, 2004 by Susan

Antsy with the rain to see the sun again. Mood so weathered by the weather now rebels. Growth is calling to be cut: hedges trimmed, bushes pruned, branches sawn. Weeds need pulling too, but I am in the noisy mood … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Colors

Posted on July 2, 2004 by Susan

The morning started with the yellowish taupey grey skies of a moving storm of clouds that washed the earth in sprinkling rain throughout the night to flashing lights and loud applause. Left behind were wisps of creamy gossamer that even … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?: Sun Slowly Rising

Posted on June 30, 2004 by Susan

The sun burns a hole in the wall of maple leaves to the east, and I half expect an open wound to be left behind as it inches up from the horizon to reach full freedom at the tippity-top of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: In Poetry

Posted on June 28, 2004 by Susan

To Chris, with love … Tonight I fell asleep, not knowing, thinking still; wakened by the bells that bring good news of friends, or strangers selling things and never had I wanted more an offer, something trivial, unnecessary, unwanted more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Viewpoints

Posted on June 27, 2004 by Susan

An ostrich sticks its head into the sand, fooling those around him into thinking he is hiding from the world, seeking refuge, a comfort of the mind at least. I follow him in theory because I think that may be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY?, WRITING, & BLOGGING: Unprolificality

Posted on June 25, 2004 by Susan

Because quite a bit is going on right now, I have not been posting as often nor as many. This may continue for a few days, until life settles in a bit and I get back on some sort of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Fiction

Posted on June 24, 2004 by Susan

Let me tell you something that I’m learning, and see if you have found it out yet for yourself, or disagree: The importance of fiction in its story form and poems, is the value of the maybe, the could be, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING & REALITY?: Battleworn

Posted on June 22, 2004 by Susan

The war is being fought on many fronts, the skies are lit on all the points of compasses in every language. Eternally, the past runs concurrent with the future, and the present is a spontaneous combustion spark that feeds itself … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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