RAINY DAY REFLECTIONS

First, a toast to the New Year!

A bouquet of flowers

in a tiny bottle of champagne!

An old friend brought champagne

 and a bouquet of flowers.

I light a candle.

We laugh over adventures

back in the 80s on the island of Cozumel

when a motorbike we rented

caught on fire!

Photos are so wonderful!

A moment in time captured

and preserved forever.

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Keeping journals helps me to

not forget my one

wild and precious life and

to be present to every single day!

I can write about a dream,

or a backache or

what I'm grateful for.

(Above: I'm sketching a rock

because of a dream about a small crippled boy

 with a cloth sack of rocks he loved.)

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I'm grateful for 

Our Brown High School Newsletter,

(Thank you Sarah and Janie!)

I’m grateful for 

a small circle of friends,

good health, Social Security,

a 1996 car that still runs.

I’m grateful for EarthFare

where I can shop for Organic Food

in this little town, Athens, Ga.,

and the Section called Five Points

which is the best place to live!!!

I'm especially grateful

for a new group called

Wed. Poets,

because I love playing around

 with words, ideas, musical notes,

designs, sketches and

journal writings.

Suddenly a magical phrase

will descend from my unconscious . . .

The long journey

is bittersweet

and strangely delicious

I like that phrase so much

that might be the title

 of the poetic memoir I am writing.

STRANGELY DELICIOUS

~~ a poetic memoir ~~

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And just recently I realized

the character of Vera Marlowe

in the musical, Silent Dreams

was even more Mother

 than I’d thought earlier,

so I have brought her to life

 and renamed Mother's old photo

"Vera Marlowe in the 30s."

(Vera Marlowe (aka Mother)

All my mother said about this photo was:

“Oh, that was when I went to New York.”

I only recently discovered

 that boats regularly sailed

 from Savannah, Ga., to New York City!

How I wish I could have heard

 some stories about it,

or Mother's earlier marriage!

So maybe that’s how my imagination

has come to fill in the blanks

and develop parts of the plot

for Silent Dreams. 

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And even if it’s never produced

the Silent Dreams Overture I composed

 with the theme of eight songs 

is now on YouTube

check it out.

(CLICK TO VIEW - 6 MIN.)

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Thank you so much

 for taking the time

to read this blog!

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Scroll down for more posts:

Election Day

The Search for Truffle Dust

All Those Journals

What Is Your Perfect Day?

Diary of a Latter Day Eccentric

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