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J is for Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199481748714637355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858613535156257995.post-49561166821631990082014-03-10T07:00:00.000-04:002014-03-10T09:24:45.221-04:00What the space before dreaming looks like<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span>They fit without splitting me open, printing images on the underside of my soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the space before dreaming, I am immune to the noise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a wide open window, within a
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I am full of holes. But I didn't realize how many until i began this 365.</div>
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Over the years, I've made volumes of things I have hated. And trashed many beautiful things. But taking photos every day for one whole year cracked me wide open. Quickly, I realized I had to keep the mistakes. I had no choice but to keep shooting. There were simply no days to hide.</div>
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I started to see the real need for our memories to be etched somewhere besides my own heart. The daily grind of motherhood easily wore away the slivers. The bits of life so tiny they went down the drain -- yet so lovely I wanted to hang them on the wall. I began to catch those moments here.</div>
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As I did, I realized how important is was to write our story. One picture at a time. It grew. Often lopsided and ugly. And some days a photo never materialized. But that was OK because the next day i could create two. My project became a huge wobbling bloom. Until it burst into a love letter. I stood there with tears in my eyes realizing it was glorious. Not because of technique or execution, but because it was for my children. My children's children. My husband. And myself. A living memoir. Glorious because of its heart. And intention.</div>
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So I started to let go. Of the rules. Of the fear of making the wrong things. Instead, I just made pictures. Everyday. I didn't share them all. Many were just for me. But I came to see erasing the ugly ones did no good. They were often the best seeds. I leaned on friends. Any journey that takes a year to finish requires loyal, honest, loving friends. I leaned on them often. And I made a book. One for each of my children. A storybook of a year of our lives. With the images that echoed the memories I wanted to hear until I could hear no more.</div>
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I've got miles to go as an artist. But this is the first year I have realized the importance of seeing with my eyes closed. Putting the lens directly against my heart - and letting it thump the shutter open and closed. Here I am one January later, feeling a bit naked without the rhythm of my 365. But so grateful it's changed my life. And the fluidity in which I am making things - a new path has been carved. I am moving forward. And making without fear.</div>
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I sensed they began tangled. A jungle of bitty hands and feet, translucent, growing side by side in their early sea. It was so easy to imagine as I watched them romp about in their twin-four-year-old-skin. Curling around each other like I might twirl my own hair. Effortlessly, quiet. And their laughter - high, clear, white - drew lines across the sky. It scattered birds and pushed through the rustling hay like water - spilling everywhere. I watched them stop, then close their eyes to know just where the other was. I could almost see the thin invisible line between them. Gossamer, beating. Connecting the blur of their bare feet. And rustling hair. Connecting their endless stream. One of faint cotton over bones light as sparrow's made for flying. They were a tangle of fingers I couldn't shake the sight of - fragile yet strong - skimming clover and moss and milkweed. They were a winding trail of honeysuckle torn from the vine.</div>
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We walked the island for two hours, edge to edge of steel gray sea. They never looked for us once. They had each other, and the secure eye of their mom. Always watching, but never too close. She let them breathe. And unfold. I saw Sarah's heart bright and true in that last light, as she let them just be. I felt her taking in their smallness. Drinking in their girlhood. Bottling the feeling of loving them just as they are. In that very moment. In that very spot, where she wed eight years ago. On Elihu. </div>
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I keep my grandmother's apron rolled in a narrow ball. Pilled, worn to a fray. Furling edges. Deep pockets with rows of flowers, orderly and tight. I see my fingers from afar when I pull it out, and become loose in my own skin. Sometimes all it takes is a touch to bring me back. Brillo. Olive oil. Wooden cabinets with plastic liners. Spearmint leaves, rosary beads and unwound tissues. Memories roll around inside like huge steel balls. Bumping my ribs and skin. I am too small for the space they need. They leave huge, soft bruises, black as night. The memory of her table. The sound of their TV. The smell of peppers and skinned tomatoes. I am little - my girl hands plunged in those apron pockets. I am safe. Unaware. Full. My hair is blowing in the wind, but I sit inside. The sun is on my face, but I am at her kitchen table. I hear nothing but birds and boiling water, and feel the warmth of her eyes on my skin. The sound of her calling my name. Her voice lands in my palms. I've caught it like a sparrow. </div>
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Now -- I look at my daughter. Scan her smooth face, and her eyes, black as pools. What memories will bring her back to me when I am gone? What will wake her in the night? What string will she swing for blindly, and find? What will be the thread that leads her heart back to mine?</div>
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{honored to have this photo and writing be a part of <a href="http://www.motherhoodwithacamera.com/2013/06/06/the-chorus-memory/">THE CHORUS</a> - a coming together of women artists' imagery and voice. follow the link for other writings and photos on 'memory'}</div>
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I'm spun black, caught in my own mad web. For watching my own beautiful children grow stuffs my heart in a jar.</div>
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Everyday, my eyes drink in their small miracles. Skin stretching over bones. Minds flying. Fingers carving letters on paper. My lids fluttering from the magic. Until they sleep -- and I push my face greedily into their hair. Breathe deeply, searching for babyness -- round faces, rolled thighs, black, shining eyes. Reality slaps without mercy as I stand in line at the grocery store, a baby-in-bucket-mother next-in-line. A pregnant-bellied-woman washing her hands next to me at the airport. White heat-rising, my web pulls tight. I see my selfish self clearly.</div>
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My twoandneveranymore children. A phrase someone I adore used the day she realized her two, were indeed her last. For some it's oneandneveranymore. Others four. And some, none. No matter the number, the day appears. And defines - carving lines thick and blue as veins. And brings with it either a wave of relief, or wall of grief. And the wonder that our days are indeed racing past us like rain. Mytwoandneveranymore. I swallow the words like stones. Mytwoandneveranymore. Mytwoandneveranymore. My heart pushes against its own walls, sharp and thin.</div>
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I push the dull ache down to my toes, only to feel it rise bit-by-bit all day, then settle in my heart as I lie my head down at night. The realness of their growth, a blue flame, singeing my skin. I'm ablaze from the sheer heat of needing to be a young mom again. Of wanting their babyness back.</div>
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I mend with the truth. Long zagging stitches. Filling the holes from the inside out - pushing-into, stitching-up, guarding the raw spaces. And let their smallness slip away. I ink the smell, the feel, the memory of baby deep inside - a ball of white light hidden under my skin. It glows. Its warmth, a reminder to be grateful. </div>
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A new baby drapes your home in gauze. Wooden walls turn into a sheer, breathing tent - a cover that eases light, quiets aches, and softens the world outside. Everything else pushes to a far away place. Muffled. The smallness of your bed becomes all the space you need. Long moments pile and loop, as you watch this small person who was just growing beneath your skin. You try on the feeling of mother. Caregiver. Sheppard. Lover of someone new. You reconnect with someone your body and spirit seems to already know. He was meant for you.</div>
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Blindly, I run back to these early hours as my children grow. Some days at a dizzying pace. I come up for air, gasping for the moments when breathing, feeding, sleeping was all that mattered. These memories fuel for the ruts, when things hurt, I am unsure, or maybe have lost my way. Growing-up a child isn't easy. And like weeds, they grow. Racing towards the sun. No matter how much you squeeze or beg or clamp shut your eyes. They grow.</div>
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Many a wild moment will bleed and run and color the slate of their childhood. The jungle of life pushes that early-gauze-newborn tent off way before we are ready. Life's long arms creep in. But we never forget. Those first hours. The haze. The quiet. The connection. The billowing, blinding light of a new soul.</div>
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We as mothers, are weaving a dense nest. Some layers are liquid -- shimmering, stretching, light. And some are ragged - thin as wings. But each day, no matter the beauty of the layer, the nest grows. Whether we want it to or not. Layers stream from our arms and legs, wild and long. A whirling, mad circle. Often I want to go back and pull the ugly pieces from yesterday. Smoke them into sky. But they are stuck, burrowed in with soft, oozing glue. In their nest, the place they'll lie their heads for the rest of their lives. A mottled place of memories. Mistakes. Deep love. Ultimate safety. Softness. Regrets.</div>
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When they look back, they will find us there. In the center. Quiet. Never perfect but trying. Like a wren, we mothers are eternally busy, taking the memories, the moments, and tuck, tuck, tucking them into place. Rearranging. And stringing them together with songs. Some days, layers of pure gold. Others, nothing but scraps. But all the while -- there we were -- singing into the light. And building their nest. A beautiful childhood nest. On layer at a time.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Love prefers unmade beds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It creeps in when mealtime’s on the floor, and becomes
louder when dogs and strings and Tupperware lids become toys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love’s song is full when feet are bare,
and there is much banging on light-filled windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love was parading about on this day, shaking the house with
its clamor, spilling a wild, wide silken river onto the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As my children grow, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Italic"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">these</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> are the moments I want to burn
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Three photo shoots in Connecticut this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My longest stretch away from the kids
for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels so good to be
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes it feels there is no boundary between her skin and
mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overlapping like water over
sand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt it deep in today’s early
morning wake-up, which shuffled my feet from our dark room to hers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Head plunged into her hair, damp
pillow, like I never left my own bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thin difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes
none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this is why
parenting her can feel so hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
feel my own faults, fears, hopes, power, right below the surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it hers, or mine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She breathes in as I breathe out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the cord was never cut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And sometimes you just get lucky because the kids are
fighting and can’t play alone, and you happen to have made a pot of soup for
dinner at 8am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was last
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry needed a push, and he
tugged me out into the milky light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sparrows ducked in and out of nests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wet grass stuck to feet black from running.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fallen leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pushed small backs higher and higher,
slender stacks of bones against my palms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And breathed in fallen pears, half eaten by squirrels, fermenting the sweet air, while small legs pump, pump, pumped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to remember it is nice to be there when dusk falls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Long before Stella’s birth, her name came to her Mother,
like a dagger – clear, unmistakable, true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember Lisa, barely pregnant, whispering into the phone
she was 100% sure it was a girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Didn’t
need the ultrasound to know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
baby already had her arms curled in Lisa’s auburn hair and a foot in the
world’s door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she arrived, with
a bang: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>old-lady soul, tireless
agenda, flashing smile, great purpose, and the unmistakable stare of a baby on
a mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stella seemed the type
of baby you could put on the floor at three months and watch her get up and go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never look back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bowl you right over - forget about her size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Stella is as sweet as they come, but
has that true, deep intensity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never
ceasing to remind you every second of the day she is so much more than a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think some babies find their way into this world -- aren’t simply born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Stella is one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Happy Birthday, sweet girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I was glad the rain came; it poured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lightening
flashed like teeth laughing at the sky, sending birds flap, flap,
flapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their brown bodies
liquid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clouds boiled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tiny petals shook. Early pears
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I needed the racket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It thatched away cobwebs, and stopped my bobbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made me take charge of this ruthless
month of September. The month when it’s just so easy to want summer back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The month of drowning, surfacing,
drowning, surfacing. The month when you blink, and it is 10pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The month when it's painfully obvious
your children are one year older.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">One week later, the rain is gone, and they are now one-year-bigger-kids, and I am a one-year-older-mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve spent a lot of the early September quiet deciphering between
sadness over the start of school, or disappointment I am no longer the mom of a
baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, both are realities we have to swallow when raising kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just wish they didn’t come so soon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Summer is over my head like a hood and I don’t want to come
out. We’re so far into summer I can’t quite
remember the softness of spring or regime of school, and just far enough from
September it feels like it may never come. Puddles of pjs and cereal have pooled around the sofa
alongside flip-flops, small bright socks, bathing suit bottoms. No one questions pink lemonade for
breakfast, or watching too much TV. We
sleep with sand in our beds, and eat peas until the vines are empty, feet still in the garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I’m trying to forget that summer ever ends and that Jane
will start first grade, her first year full day.
Or that Henry will go to school for the first time. I’m lapping it up. Staying deep in summer, lush with
denial, flooded with flushed faces, bare bodies, beer. For now it’s summer. All day long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">In those first moments of summer, kids molt like snakes. Piles of who they were yesterday ribbon
like silk into the fragrant, cut grass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">It doesn’t matter how old you get, you will always remember those
first days of summer. Like the
last walk home from the bus, marled pavement and small pebbles rolling beneath
your feet. The shock-of-white-sun from looking over your shoulder, making sure your mom was still there. The sky. Extra big.
Extra blue. Some odd sense you
are moving up in the world, even if it’s only from first grade to second. Your heart high and full in your little
chest like a balloon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Any fears or worries, or joys for that matter, from the year
have fled. What’s left is the core
of a school-aged kid. Ripe
confidence. Dirty hands. Curiosity, glistening. And the amazing feeling you have, and
can always, conquer the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Have you heard of this? “Flow”? I
didn’t know it had a name until I saw <a href="http://www.thehappymovie.com/">this</a> documentary. Flow is when you become so
engrossed in process, whatever it may be, you loose your sense of self, becoming one with what you are doing. Your world stops. If you are an artist, painter, baker, runner, writer, musician, woodworker,
gardener, or maker-of any sort, I bet you’ve felt this many times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">This past weekend, we took in the music of Waterdeep, a
husband/wife music duo, in an old ark-like-barn, and I couldn’t get over their
flow – deep and total loss.
Watching them felt true. In
many ways </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Italic'; font-size: 9pt;">so</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> true, it
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Their flow blew me away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The weekend was filled with many other things get lost in
too, and these photos catch a few favorites. But five days out, I keep coming back to Waterdeep’s
melodies, pouring like rain, voices gleaning off the darkness. And
that blissful ability to loose ourselves in flow -- or watch someone else get lost in it -- feeling
the glory of time melt to nothingness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reminds me what it was like to make an image without
listening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without blogs or Etsy
or thousands of photography websites at my fingertips with eternal piles of imagery
-- sun kissed children, lilac-ed brides. Paled skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eyes all-a-perfectly shining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bevy of crisp, noiseless, digital sheen. So many places to fall short.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I found these old photos and realized 10 years ago the only
thing I listened to was my eye behind the camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I didn’t even know I was listening, I just shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film gave the magic of delay -- no
looking or judging right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And when the film was developed, that was it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No revising, never deleting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You would then share the photos in hand with family or friends, who
stuck them in frames or pinned them to bulletin boards or the fridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So tactile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edges curled, they almost smelled like a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glossy, light swelled, paper lined,
words like “Kodak” or “Endurance” swimming in light blue script, corner to
corner across the back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
photos make me miss the way I could hold the image.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuck it into a pocket or bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then find it months later like an old tissue or
receipt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immediately brought back
to the moment that it captured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I don’t know if it is the Italian or mother in me, but I am deeply
satisfied cutting a ripe banana into small round slices to feed my
children. I guess it’s the innate drive
to nourish. I’d get that same feeling
right before feeding my babies milk, sinking into bed, blurry-eyed, while all
the day’s corners fell. Every
noise vanished. Every void, filled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Watching Renee felt very, very close to how I feel when
feeding my children. It was Mother's Day, and nineteen years since I'd seen her last. There she was, gentle mother, bent over her bow-mouthed
babies, swooping pails, collecting nostalgia. In those hours, Renee filled the hole of curiosity I have
for friends from my past -- as life has pushed on so selfishly, sometimes there’s
barely time to look back. And for
those few hours, the nineteen years between then and now disappeared. Because there she was, looking just
like she did way-back-when, and in the moment, filling my cup. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I remember visiting my mother at the hospital when my brother
was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was five, hands clenching
paper puppets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can still see my
mother’s papery white gown trailing the floor, and feel the softness of
her skin and copper hair. I didn't know how much my world was changing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">At six weeks, Crosby is everything lovely and new:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lips tightly woven to a braided knot, and
liquid eyes, black as berries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
much newness to capture, yet it was Katama that had me on this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black-lashed eyes, wide, and watching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> B</span>rain working:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new, baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New, BABY. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
fingers fluttered everywhere, and limbs were like fluid, spilling
into each photo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trapezed between
her mom and dad she sang Crosby the ABC’s, and wanted to drive small cars all
over his body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a big job to
make sense of such a small thing, not a cat, or a toy, but a brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wears her love, full and bright, on her sleeve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s been pouring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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