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Pink In A World of Gray

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Krauter Vesuvius plum Tree 2020 Every year I wait for this time: The pink buds are reassurance that winter had passed and sweeter times would arrive… But, winter never came. Getting back into the dirt, planting , flowers and the heady jasmine perfume, seem far, very far. I remember last year, I can’t imagine this year. Winter never came. An unexpected visitor did. Still, the joy of pink reappeared, defiant, earlier than normal, in the silence of the new days. With the reminder that nature will prevail.    

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162. Mother-Daughter Journey: Another War

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My mother lives in a residence for the elderly; it is pleasant enough with many activities and amenities, but she hasn’t left her apartment in years. Call it a kind of paranoia of the elderly but she has been sequestering herself, in fact she has kept her distance even in emotional ways for as long as I’ve known her. I had difficulty falling asleep last night due to my run-away thoughts. What if? What if? What if the aides who attend to her are carriers of the Corona Virus? Is this how my mother, now 102 years old, will reach … Continue reading →

161. Mother-Daughter Journey: Today is My Mother’s Birthday

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She is 102 years old. Living in a residence. She has the help of aides who travel on buses and subways. Think about that. She is cogent most of the time but has occasional bouts of old-age ideations, the typical paranoia and all that goes with it. She can be so “normal.” She can be so impossible. But, she is still here and she made it to another year. A year I never thought she would reach. She was born in the year of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. That means that her parents survived it as well as an … Continue reading →