I love this…. first encountered it on NPR…….. telling your life story in 6 words, no more, no less… Smith magazine has published a book of these.
Ernest Hemingway’s……. “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
Mine – “Seeking: Time, Love, Sleep,Art, Wine”
What’s your 6 word memoir?
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Come Play with Me….. 6 Word Memoirs
Posted in Blogroll, Inspiration, Life, NPR, Time, art, authentic, autumn, emotions, love, meditation, muse, opportunity, paint, playful, poetry, prose, relationships, self-realization, thoughts, wine, words, writing on March 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In Search of the Skin Horse
Posted in Life, emotions, hope, love, relationships, thoughts on September 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This afternoon I went to a birthday party for a gentleman turning 90 – he told me he reached this age in good health because he knew the magic formula. I asked him what that was, hoping he’d enlighten me.He looked at me and said, “Love. I fell in love with a good woman who [...]
Life goes on
Posted in Inspiration, Life, emotions, love on August 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Life goes on ….
Two Septembers ago, I heard the fear in her voice. We sat in her backyard drinking coffee with the chiminea aglow, her face mostly in shadows except for the tears trickling down her cheeks.
Her fear was not for herself, not for the days ahead when the beast would have its way with [...]
Masterpiece
Posted in authentic, emotions, love on August 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I close my eyes and remember you
small details
picked up by the scrutinizing eye
of an artist
Had I the talent
I would have painted you
that afternoon in June
on a large fresh canvas
caught every small detail
the way the sky with her billowing clouds
wrapped around you
the sun picking up the highlights
of your salt and pepper hair
and casting shadows [...]
The Woman Who Lives Inside Of Me
Posted in Inspiration, Life, authentic, hope, love, muse, relationships, self-realization, thoughts on August 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In my past I was the mere shadow of a weak woman.
Unworthy of being loved, I married a man whose depth was no more than surface deep, his own sorrows buried in alcohol. Yes, saddenly this was what I unconsciously chose for myself…someone that I could love more and who did not know the meaning [...]
Some things I’d like to know
Posted in Inspiration, Life, authentic, love, prose, relationships, self-realization, thoughts on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To the man I’ve yet to meet….
There are some things I want to know
about you, dear
not all at once, unless of course,
your comfort takes you there
I am ok with letting these things
reveal themselves one by one
like fallen leaves that arrive with the wind
Or perhaps they are best discovered
peeled away one by one,
like the thin layers of [...]
