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Today I Started Loving You Again

td Whittle

Posted on June 26, 2012

My dress sense was exceptional, even back then.

My fav cowgirl combo, with white tights and panda shoes, circa 1969

Nostalgia is a funny thing. I find, as I age, it becomes funnier still, or perhaps curiouser and curiouser is a more apt phrase. With some regularity these days, my long-term memory tosses up random files from the Life Narrative Archives of my brain.

 

Of course, if we are honest with ourselves, Freud and I both know that this memory selection-process is not random at all. These moments of reverie are triggered by my present life looping back to my past in subtle but poignant ways. Sometimes, it’s the way sunlight slices through a room at a particular time of day; or the texture of a shirt I’ve dug out of my closet, that’s still wrinkled from its last wear; or the feel of a sandy wind blowing across my face, on a certain patch of beach, at high tide.

 

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The Beginning is Happiness

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 23, 2012

    

Is there a sound? There is a forest.

What is the world? The word is wilderness.

What is the answer? The answer is the world.

What is the beginning? A beginning is happiness.

What is the end? No one lives there now.

What is a beginning? The beginning is light.

What makes happiness? Nothing.

What makes an ending? What does not.

What is her skin? Her skin is composed of strange clothing and clouds of butterflies,

          of events and odors, of the rose fingers of dawn, transparent suns of full

          daylight, blue loves of dusk and night fish with huge eyes.

                                                                                                     Max Walter Svanberg

 

~from Trouble Deaf Heaven by Bin Ramke 

   
Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez  

Good News, Bad News

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 19, 2012

There are a few things that (almost) never fail to perk us up. Like seeing a reference to yourself, however obliquely, in print. I remember picking up a book by A. S. Byatt to give it the sentence test* and finding my birthday on the page. Naturally, I bought the book (as it was obviously a sign). I enjoyed it and read several more by Byatt.

 

This week I picked up another book and saw my birthday listed. I did not buy it.

 

 

Perhaps my cynicism held me back?

 

Another potential source of delight is the receipt of a handmade gift from a child. Two year old Addison made this for me:

 

 

Her mother insists that it was meant to say “Love you, Addison”. She also said it was a drawing of me. Not in crosshairs.

 

So I’m feeling sufficiently perked up now thankyouverymuch. The universe can stop trying so hard and make me a cocktail instead. Really. It’s better that we just sit and drink and discuss this no more.

 


* Sentence test: picking up a book, turning to a random page and reading one sentence to see if you like it enough to read more.

 

Photos by Sandra Peterson Ramirez

 

Had a Great Time, Wish I’d Survived!

td Whittle

Posted on June 14, 2012

My introduction to the idea of a zombie apocalypse came early, as I was not yet four years old when my parents loaded my older sis (who was six) and me into the back seat of the family car and headed off to the local drive-in to see Night of the Living Dead. We watched the terror unfold as most children do, with our eyes peeping through our fingers, and frightened squeals spluttering from behind our palms. At random moments, my mother would take exception to some grotesquery and slap at our heads, ordering us to “get down, don’t look!” which would prompt my sister to assert herself as the elder sibling by shoving a pillow over my face – ostensibly to protect me…

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Welcome to Our New Site

td Whittle

Posted on June 12, 2012

We’ve spent the past few months rebuilding our blog here, on our own, independent site, and it’s now ready to go. Our address is the same as it was on our former Blogger site, so entering that URL will lead you here from now on.  If you were subscribed to our Blogger site to receive new posts via e-mail, and if you would like to continue doing so, you will need to re-subscribe on our new site. Just enter your e-mail address either in the space provided on the sidebar where it says “Follow by email,” or in the space provided when you click on “Subscribe” (top menu bar). You will receive a confirmation email asking you to confirm your subscription request. It takes a few seconds to complete the whole process. Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy!

 

Moving Day

Texas Sky

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 8, 2012

 

These photos really need a sound track. As I’m creating this post, I have this running in the background so I have an accompaniment of bird and bugs and perhaps frogs chirping away. There’s also the hint of a breeze rustling the trees and high grass. For me, that is the sound of Texas. Not the traffic and the constant construction of the city, but the almost quiet of nature. The only thing that trumps it is rain on metal, whether it’s a tin roof or a window unit air conditioner. And of course after the rain all the singing and chirping and buzzing returns.

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Wisdom

Sandra Peterson Ramirez

Posted on June 4, 2012

Words of wisdom from Lilli, aged four: “I like my mommy because she holds my hair back when I throw up.” Yes, my dear, the best people do that for you.

Photo by Sandra Peterson Ramirez

  

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