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Hmmm....what is THIS track? Shudder. We saw lots of deer, and I wonder what that other track is? The long road I have enjoyed walking since childhood. Coming and going. Big Bird. Summer roadside wildflowers. Mother and child. Oranges way out in the woods. Bittersweet memories. This is a tortoise den; sometimes these are taken over by rattlesnakes. Green and dreamy. Old craggy pine. Reindeer

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Lately I've been having the most wonderful dreams. That's worth mentioning because most of my life I've been plagued with troubling or haunted dreams. Now my husband is showing up in my dreams and we're having fun together, and there's a sense of comfort and freedom from worry. Like my life now.I'm so grateful for Harold and for all the blessings he has brought into my life with his love,

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SO many duties and concerns swirling in my head, so of course I put it all aside and had an art attack last night. I made three collages and started a file of cutouts and supples to take along on my solo trip "down home" to FL next week (note to robbers--our home will be fully occupied)!This collage is one that, I'm flattered to say, Helen picked out for her birthday/anniversary gift and I hope

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Scan of today's collage. A little art fun to relieve grading tedium. Will someone name this piece for me?

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I'm just back from my last Public Speaking class of the semester, and my lovely student Nurta Hade brought me a gorgeous Somali butter cake as a gift. I have already cut into it so I borrowed this photo from Somalirecipies.com.This cake is perfect for breakfast or a snack--not too sweet, and fragrant with cardamom, one of my favorite spices. Nurta also brought me a package of green cardamom pods

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PagesThey don't know you yet butthey will soon be familiar withyour smellyour habits as you twist your hairpull on your bottom lipsigh, yawn, rub your eyes.They will learn the weight of yourpalm, your fist, your elbow,chin-in-handand will bear the roundbenediction of your coffee ring.They will inherit the dustof the erasuresof things you deem too shamefulto leave upon their faces, they willgather

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Marine BiologyNature is an indifferent mother, I saydutiful at best, she does what is required,but not with tenderness.That is a lie, you insist—many animals practice nurturance,play, camaraderie of a sort,faithfulnessand choral singing besides.Whales write new songs for every season,every task and journey.This is what you taught me.Alright then.Well what else is there to doin the deep but

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© Nancy A. HenryJonquils Oh you old broken jar you are like me, no use, no usebut Jesusif You won’t mendmy shattered soullet me spill lightfrom all these cracksleak life to these dry acres,be refilled from some unseen sourceto pour and pour.Let every gap be a doorinto grace.Let me rememberwhat blooms from seeming deathin the secret place,faith multiplying undergroundlike jonquilsout of the

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Gaia© Nancy A Henry (2011)OrientationYour first adjustment will be hardest;the wild spinning.Brightness is easier, though shocking—and breathing air—but this movement,even in the containerthat keeps you from explodingback into light,even with this pumpthat exerts a constant argumentagainst gravity—even then you’ll feel it,the vertiginous swirl of all of it,the surging,rhythmic advance of sea;the

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PilgrimageThis holy picture was painted with starpoints of lightshining from the body of Christ like knifeblades.I am taken by the reverse image,the darkness coming at him, shards of obsidian,malevolent arrows. At Meteorawe tour a shot-up chapel, the eyes of the Blessed Mothertwo crumbling bullet holes. Some soldier'sunknowingly eloquent sacrilege, thisMadonna of the twentieth century,this

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I've been going through photos and realized for the first time that I looked, at 16, a lot like my Nana did back in the early 1900s when she was 16. I like that. I have her chin, mouth, and nose. I never knew. That's my mother on the right; it's pretty clear we share some genes.

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OK, it's been awhile because I've been so busy with fun things! Three new classes--and ONLY three--enabling me to give the students really good attention AND to learn the new online learning format our school has adopted. So far I like it a lot.I'm going to share some random things that interest me or make me happy!Here's one--two of my favorite actors, and truly GORGEOUS individuals, with a

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, inner right wing, detailLike so many other Americans, since yesterday's outrageous carnage in Arizona, I've been struggling with shock, horror, and a sense of despair about our country's path. Surely, I've been thinking, we're entering some new era of depravity. I was just revisiting that thought when my "This Day in History" widget dealt me this

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True Grit. Incredible movie. The original came out in 1969, when I was 8 years old and ready for hero worship. Kim Darby's strong, dignified, brave and idiosyncratic Mattie Ross fit the bill. I've just discovered that Kim has a website, and a big, adoring fan base, and well she should. A film starring such swaggeringly manly, hot, and gifted as John Wayne, Dennis

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So, I woke up this morning at 5 and, unable to fall back to sleep, I thought I would edit some poems. I went to Google to start a search for the etymology of the word "nightmare". I don't know how this happened, but now it's nearly 8 a.m. and I have redesigned my blog, lurked around Facebook, visited my email, edited several photos, and perused the British Museum's online collection of ancient

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Resolved?--Weed out my junk, inner and outer.--Write more.--See more of my friends.--Skate some. Walk some.--Keep this &%#$# blog!Oh--and stop stockpiling for the "next catastrophe". I had our cleaning goddess, Orianna, cull out three garbage bags full of expired canned goods from our basement. Shame. What's left? Pasta, pasta, pasta. Also, I have eight cans of tuna, four cans of crab meat, seven

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I'm a little short on time today but I wanted to thank my friend Margaret for calling my attention to Glenn Beck's remarks (made just over a month ago) about "social justice Christians".In short, he exhorted viewers to "run" from their churches if they belonged to a church promoting social or economic justice; he further equated such values with communism and Nazism.A quick survey of the media,

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I get so hung up about this. Can I post some thought on the blog? No, because it's not a "great thought", it's not "thought through", not "finished", "planned"; there's not time to do an adequate job of.....what, exactly? Enlightening humanity? For heaven's sake, no one's reading this nonsense, and thank GOD! Where is all this pressure coming from? Not my throngs of avid readers, clearly. As

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On Friday night, March 12, friends and fans of poetry had a meaningful and, at times, enchanted evening at the Harlow Gallery in charming Hallowell, Maine. http://www.harlowgallery.org/The setting was enhanced by the Young at Art Exhibit, featuring the work of area artists in grades K-12. At right, top are: Long Hair, by Annie McKee, Grade 6; Chinese Ribbon Dragon, by Emma White, Grade 1; and

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I'm so neurotic. I didn't post a blog for weeks because of my intention to put up a really worthy post about THON, the indescribably moving, noble, and world-changing student-run charity event at Penn State. More about THON here: http://www.thon.org/The Flickr album, including more than 7,500 uploads, is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinwyne/4381195144/Here's the link to all my photos

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Perfect blue skies, Monday holiday, sunshine before the rumored storm--a great day for lunch with my good friend Chris! The drawbridge ALMOST made me late, but it was a nice opportunity to look at the activity of Portland Harbor. Just in time, over, out, and into the sunshine of a glowing midwinter's day! Our favorite lunch spot: The Dogfish Cafe on Congress Street. It's a fine place to

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!At our house, today has been a day of fiscal awareness. After a long, long, frustratingly long layoff, my scientist husband is on the eve of his return to work--part time, at first--in his highly technical field. We've been kissed by a blessed ripple of the sloooowly recovering economy.Our good friend down the block, who, for two years after her layoff, worked as a

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I flirted from afar for a long time. I'm not a spring chicken anymore. Burned and spurned a few times by the shiny and new, it was a challenge for me to trust. Organizational programs, that is. I would always start with high hopes, but I would soon grow weary of the effort it took to keep the relationship going.Nevertheless, I finally had to admit I was powerless over the chaos of my bookmarks. I

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OK, I admit it. I arrived at the classroom in an uncommonly peevish humor. Churlish. Acrimonious, even.For one thing, an unprecedented surge in enrollment has thrown our once sedate, orderly community college car owners into a state of depravity and utter lawlessness. I'm talking about our parking lots.Arriving shortly before class, I noted a fellow faculty member preparing to back his car out

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In today's Mass Media and Popular Culture class, we continued an ongoing discussion about the staggering pace of change in news delivery--this time next month, not to mention next year, where will we be getting our information about politics, current events, finance, the economy?What can students do to ensure that they are turning to reliable, balanced sources of reportage--especially in a

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