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glorious

August 5, 2022August 4, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 6 Comments

I get a new half pan for my watercolor set, quinacridone magenta.  The older I get, the more I like pink.  When younger, I thought it conventional to like pink, stereotypical, liking a color society assumes I like because I am female.  So I showed them (them in quotation marks), cultivated instead a love for yellow which remains … Continue reading glorious

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reverence

July 29, 2022July 28, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 15 Comments

The first of the cosmos have come up, self-seeding from last year, and the year before, and….  Along with the zinnias, this summer’s haphazard garden is shaping up.  I walk to the shed to get the lawn mower, notice a tomato plant. Another dear plant has self-seeded and, for a moment, my heart skips a beat, reverence rooting … Continue reading reverence

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a string of good

July 15, 2022July 14, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 5 Comments

I see my friend after several weeks’ time.  She makes coffee, I bring olive oil cake swirled with blueberry jam, we sit on her porch.  It’s a perfect summer morning, a perfect way to begin the week. The rest of the week is good too, though busy.  My writing project is challenging my brain in new ways and … Continue reading a string of good

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works of art

July 8, 2022July 8, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 10 Comments

The words in my journal, of late, are of softness and breath, of dreams and process, artist and voice, life and wonder. Repeatedly they surface, on this page and that page, on the page that’s written two days later, as if something in my subconscious is coming up for air.  I breathe, I dream, I iterate.  I … Continue reading works of art

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exquisite

June 3, 2022June 2, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 16 Comments

The week is not quite a blur, but close.  It’s full with yoga classes and the start of a freelance writing project.  I do not clean the bathrooms except to wipe the sinks.  I manage to get the laundry done, including sheets and towels.  I do a quick sweep of the downstairs floors but leave the dusty table tops … Continue reading exquisite

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mint-ness

May 13, 2022May 12, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 4 Comments

It’s Friday and I don’t know where Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday went.  Having lived each of them I should, and I suppose I do, but there’s a definite sense of where and what and how does this happen?  Friday, already? My daughter gives me three sprigs from her mint plant in a spice jar … Continue reading mint-ness

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the bucket

March 18, 2022March 17, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 6 Comments

When I look out the window, it looks wintry, the colors pale, the trees like skeletons.  But I’ve seen daffodils along the highway, I’ve seen crocuses on the outskirts of town, the baby daffodils out front are peeking through.  Around me, I see hints of the fullness to come. We have what I feel sure is our … Continue reading the bucket

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wanting more

March 11, 2022March 10, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 10 Comments

It’s rainy, it’s sunny, it’s warm, it’s cold.  I stay inside, go outside, curl up, stretch out.  I watch the news, teach yoga, talk to family and friends; I bake chocolate chip cookies and bread.  There is dismay, disbelief, connection, creativity, a turning inward while being called to look out.  This week holds a bit of everything, it holds … Continue reading wanting more

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just now

December 17, 2021January 13, 2022 ~ Michelle GD ~ 8 Comments

Just now, the light of this Friday is rising.  The trees, bare of leaves, are dark in silhouette, with swaths of warm and delicious tones, dove grey and French vanilla, behind them.  It’s peaceful…though the air is too warm, 57 degrees Fahrenheit at seven o’clock in the morning.  I keep thinking that the cold has settled in, and … Continue reading just now

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steady

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 ~ Michelle GD ~ 8 Comments

They arrive one by one, two by two with food and bottles of wine in hand.  We talk, we eat, we look at the stars and warm ourselves by the bonfire.  I am a little exhausted the next day (we all are), but a fun evening, for sure. Two days later, my daughter and I plan a … Continue reading steady

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