Sunday Scribblings

Sunday Scribblings #52 – My Nights

How long has it been that I’ve been remembering my nights? A perfectly square Kodak memory of my twin sister and I huddled together in a arm chair is my first memory of night.She in her Ernie hoodie, and me in my Bert hoodie were fan-clubbing a special Sesamie Street episode from the warmth of…

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Sunday Scribbling #51 – Curve/Curves

Among other things, I am a curve. Curve Blackberry 30 minute fItness centres Linear regressions Data plotted on a graph Curve Bell Learning The snowboarding S Curve Distributing information Bent, deviating from being straight Geometric arc Part of a circle or sphere Curve cur·va·ceous adj having an attractive body with rounded hips and breasts

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Sunday Scribblings #50 – Quitting

To be a quitter, to resign from, to leave, to abandon burden. To quit. Quitting conjures negativity. When, they have “given up”. They couldn’t tolerate their boss any longer, so they quit their job. Or they were to sensitive to be in the world, so they quit life. Or they became a “sinner” because they…

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Sunday Scribblings #48 – Telephone

Red dial telephone. I was the phone that lived in the basement at 11 Santamonica Blvd. The one that Jenn and Kim (and often Lori Day) made the crank calls with. The one that they used to speak quietly to their “boy friends” or gossip with their “best friends” on. I would sit on top…

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Sunday Scribblings #47 – Family

I carry a family around with me deep in the vertical plumb line of my body my family rests in the spiraling energy fields that run from the front to the back of my body all along my spine they are my vertical reference line the one that anchors my foundation and gives me power…

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Sunday Scribblings #46 – The Future of the Planet

I have to say that when I saw the topic for this week’s Sunday Scribblings, I felt a little less than thrilled. While I am a conscious person, today I feel like the last thing I need is to dwell in negativity or doomsday scenarios and to live, in my mind at least, in a…

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Sunday Scribblings #45 – Composed

  Unable to steady her throbbing heart Nor to stop the pulsating symphony in her ears, Despite quivering fingers, and A million larvae in her belly, She took a chance. RAW exposure. Enamel flashed. Self-confidence oozed from fingers and toes and lips. She remained composed. Rocked the house. “Brace yourself for a never-ending date with…

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Sunday Scribblings #44 – Fearless

She backed out of the driveway She was part of a family of 4 Pulling the car into the driveway She became a family of 3 Fearless She had to take care of her 2 But first had to take care of number 1 She left for awhile But came back after not too long…

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Sunday Scribblings #43 – Photograph

Photographs. What an interesting prompt this week. To start, I just have to say that my friend Lina, whom I met in India in on Christmas Day 2005, recently told me about this amazing site for artists and and writers. It’s called RedBubble. You can post and sell work online.Lina’s on there, check out her…

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