So much happens so fast in the Spring at Little Piney Bastrop TX. Trees seem to leaf out overnight. Wildflowers bloom and fade and make way for different wildflowers. Favorite summer birds return. Butterflies, bees, and dragonflies flutter and zoom about in flashes of color. Bird songs resonate throughout the woods and fields trailingContinue reading
Tag: grief and loss
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Another Spring at Little Piney Bastrop TX
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Thoughts About Loving a Place
I wrote this last week after a visit to my childhood home. These are my thoughts about “loving a place.” Loving a Place “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his ownContinue reading
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My Sweet Aunts
My Aunt Thelma died this week. She was a feisty woman, outspoken and strong-willed. I say this with much love because that was not always an easy way to be as a woman in East Texas or in our family. I know because I’m like her in those ways! She was a career woman, aContinue reading