Tag: aging
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A Friend Loses Her Hearing
Dear One, I heard you yesterday when you said your sense of hearing is diminishing. The sense of isolation comes with that, of distance as the world retreats to a hum of a murmur instead of a vibrant soundscape, tho likely you hear in ranges, maybe birdsong but not conversation. I am sure this is […]
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Oaths: Legalities: Legal Ties: Insights
This is the part of my life where I’m allowed to be funny, to be creative, to talk to people using language I’ve spent a lifetime developing. Instead it was “Shut up, it’s The Covid” at all times. I do not consent. I am literally of a different mind when it comes to all of […]
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Aging to Perfection…
Mortality / Schmortality Third person me She walks with the confidence Of a big-breasted woman 35 a dim echo as its double approaches No long gray tresses here, But short, sharp spikes For the divine connection. Thick around her center Description: Rubenesque Undefined by Twiggy-standards A short, Italian fireplug of female Passions wrapped in […]
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Carol’s Carousel
I don’t know what to think anymore. I barely know how to think. Anymore. I have had to research bump stocks & look up Nikki Haley & John Bolton. I spend time poring over reports about McCabe & Comey to try to understand the current “political scene” when I want to scream at everyone in […]
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Nothing To Lose
For as we age Our faces fold in upon themselves The maps of all our days emerge In laugh-lines, in worry-warts In fingers grown like twigs on a forest floor Beginnings mete out endings Relations fall from edges of our earths White-salted seas encroach once-growing green But all in all, I would not have it […]
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O Vanity (or, on Being Beautiful)
Every day I carefully sift through my closet to put together an outfit that’s coordinated, spiffy & “interesting.” I sigh about being on old lady, but I dress it up anyway. I fix my hair (wear it front or back?), I dress for the weather (long sleeves in New Mexico can be too much at […]
Riding the Light 