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Play: A Playful Child Lives in Every Adult Part Two
1958 With my instructor watching, I was trotting on a horse seventeen hands high on a trail outside of the corral where I usually practiced.
Play: Issa Part One
Come to me let's play little sparrow orphan! Issa I am seventy-eight. I walk to my twice-weekly Tai Chi class for seniors. I am learning how to build a…
Everyone is a Writer Family Writing Part 10
Wellington Cramer
Everyone is a Writer, Family Writing Part 9
The following is an excerpt from The Box Boys by Paul Sherburne -
Indian Summer
Each morning, after the orange sun has risen, I go out my door onto dry, leaf-strewn earth to face the sun's blinding-yellow rays.
The Young Old: Inspired by The Economist article “The New Old”*
From Mumbai airport to Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut in the USA, The Economist is my reading material.
Cranberries: Ruby Red Fruits of the Bogs
The celebration of Thanksgiving with a traditional dinner comes alive in thoughts of a past era of my life—a polished curly birch table (in later years…
Shoofly Pie—A Reminder of Being a Young Family
My unexpected memory of this pie holds a truth, but not only for our young family;
Karma and Exercise: Marge* at 88 and Me at 75
Karma is “the natural and necessary happenings in one’s life pre-conditioned by one’s past lives.”*
Autumn Haiku of Uejima Onitsura, 1661–1738
Cool, cool evening.
Found Sound
There is a large streetlight by my home where two dirt lanes intersect.
From My Desk to My Pinjra*
My days of bhaji (vegetable) shopping are done.
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