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Author Archives: Monica
Call me Cheepy
Names are Important I recognized at the age of three that names are important. The names you are given, and, especially, the names you choose for yourself. Others demonstrate respect and caring by honoring your choices, even when ridiculous. For … Continue reading
Elixir of Ornery Moose
October 2016 It’s rifle hunting season in the Colorado mountains. We – that includes dogs – wear orange clothing and patrol our mountain property, hoping to protect our moose, deer, elk, and bear. Two weeks ago, during moose archery and … Continue reading
Posted in buffalo, Colorado, Grand Tetons, humor, moose, Nature, Poems, wolves
Tagged buffalo, collies, Grand Tetons, humor, hunting, moose, nature, poetry, wildlife, wolves, yoga chanting
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Completion
Complete Me I am incomplete without: the red fox who shadows my tracks leaving prints and pee everywhere but hiding himself from sight; the moose whose blackness fades from view behind a tree; the grizzly who announces his displeasure at … Continue reading
Crying Over Callas
Crying Over Callas Your voice, expressing the highs and lows the limits of human pleasure and pain in this our earthly existence Your voice, rich and vibrant, warm, nuanced, complex, multi-layered screechy in the modern medium of compact disc I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, opera, Poems, solar system
Tagged Carmen, Christoph Gluck, George Bizet, Maria Callas, opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, Voyager spacecraft
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Pumpkin Treat
OR is it bumblebee…?
Another Gateway: Grandchildren!
Another gateway to the sweet heart of the universe: GRANDCHILDREN! Here is our grandbaby Ezra on his birth day at two months at eleven weeks His voice is melodious. He smiles and clucks with pleasure and alert interest. He imitates … Continue reading
Posted in Grandchildren
Tagged Alaskan Eskimo, Grandchildren, Loren Eiseley, soul of the universe, The Unexpected Universe
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Oh, You Uncommon Loon/Heart Lake Bliss
Early this August we went backpacking for the second year at Heart Lake in Yellowstone. The distance is eight miles from trailhead to lake and another two miles around to our campsite. Some campsites are as much as five miles … Continue reading
D-Day Landings/Normandy Invasion June 6, 1944
The Cliffs of Normandy Fifty years after, walking on flat ground above the water, vast to the sight and empty yet, steel blue, placid like the black cows grazing on the furrowed field sky a colored mirror watching, waiting, breath … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, rescue, World War II
Tagged D-Day, Normandy landings, Operation Overlord, Pointe du Hoc, U.S. Army Rangers, World War II
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Smooth Sailing for All Ships of State
Marital Ship of State Ego objects, but heart may await course adjustment to marital state gentle strength takes the helm guides the journey to harmony’s realm fair wind ahead – bear up and away loving limits save the day. Everyone … Continue reading
Moving Forward
Two days ago a pick-up truck was parked in the neighborhood with this message in its back window: You have no choice. You MUST move forward. I viewed this with some surprise and a bit of foreboding. Was this a … Continue reading