Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Lesser’
My father and the sea……
I cannot separate my love for my father from my love for the sea. They meet and merge like the tides. Each year, when we were young, despite his longing to vacation in new places, to satisfy his thirst to explore, he would carve out a week to gather by the sea with my mother, …
Read MoreOf curiosity and closets and the clothesline of things…..
I’ve been taking stock, cleaning out the closets of what I think I am, reclaiming some treasures and discarding what no longer fits. It’s been carting off piles of what may have worked in seasons past and infusing with sunshine fresh from the clothesline the ones I choose still to embrace. There’s been sadness in…
Read MoreBreathe deep from the brave to just be……
Life is noisy right now. I’ve got a rumble in my belly for quiet, for shelter from the grating hurry that seems to crackle like electricity all around. I feel it in the air, the shove to go faster, to outrun the clamor to shut out the buzz with my own frantic go. But I’m…
Read MoreA little love letter to my country….
I love this country. I wish I had a way to hold our collective hands, smile into each pair of eyes, and whisper tender and strong, “hey, this is so not you.” You aren’t defined by this – the hurtful ads and jabs and manipulative campaigns that saturate our feeds until we’re forced to look…
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