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| MCHS Honors Choir 2007 with my b-day cookie |
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| I should have stayed in Canada ~1974 |
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Manhattan with Mike & Ann & my very crooked necklace, 2008
Yes, I use this poem every year~it's becoming my personal anthem. Today's blog is simply a photo montage of the random photos that I have on the current laptop~realising that I've had a lot of metaphoric wind through my hairs! Wonder what the next swirl around the sun will be bringing~this past year was less than stellar and I am looking forward to turning the page on it. That's pretty much the nicest thing I can say for my past year.
But. One of the nicer bits to gaining age, is also gaining a smidgen of perspective. As I scroll through these pics, I realise that however my personal years go, overall? I am a lucky girl. My life maybe hasn't been conventional, but it's been interesting and I have some rather fabulous people in it. It is easy to give thanks for that.
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i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me
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| The Alaska years with Escobar and Sage kidlets |
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| Vicious game of Old Maid at Bob & Ellen's |
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| Three girls in tubs~Willamina 1970 (?) |
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Back off, the dishes are mine to wash
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| First time at the Met, Rigoletto 2009 |
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| with Moreau alum at a wedding in Carmel, 2009 |
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Cousin Ryan, Princeton 2009
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| Aunt Ellen making me pretend to sing at Valley Forge, 2009 |
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| No, I'm not conducting in a pink tutu~am actually sewing a costume moments before the curtain for Crazy for You, due to our actual costumer being drugged out of her gourd~long and funny story. Moreau, 2007 |
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Something in Seattle, 2010
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| Dunston cousins~saying good-bye to Uncle Jerry |
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Gotta have just one photo in here of my Bogart
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Teaching Seattle ESL guys how to make tortillas, pizza, and cookies~not necessarily all in the same lesson
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| Cousin Ann & I~Austin 2012 |
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| Christmas kisses 2014 |
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| Gossip and cakes~circa 1977 |
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| Fabulous music colleagues at Trinity |
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| Introducing my 'phew to the wonders of Traders |
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| Lessons & Carols, 2015 |
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| Dallas Choral Festival, April 2016 |
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| DC History trip & getting to see my Littles, May 2016 |
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| Wearing purple now~forget that 'when I grow old' nonsense |
Enjoyed pics of your trip down memory lane. Liked times we could see you. The poem is lovely. Wishing you something/someone grand as you begin another year of living one day at a time.
ReplyDeleteHappy bday early. Your gift will have to wait 'til you get back to school, because I neglected to get the address to have it delivered - and I can't use a PO Box!
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