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From the First of November, 2017

Because sometimes it takes a whole month to write it down. I type with hands that are redolent with garlic, onion, and freshly grated ginger. Today contains a chunk of time for cooking, with hearty…

MelindaNovember 30, 2017

Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

Autographing Autumn

I was walking, first field-- verdant, moist , glorious carpet of greens, and the woods edged closer, with a beckoning trail, and then the floor was pine needles, punctuated with wily old roots in no…

MelindaOctober 22, 2017

Autism Bink Nature Poem Poetry Singing Spirituality Writing

BRIDGES

We are pausing on a bridge over the dwindling stream that crawls through our large, local dollop of green, Bird Park, because we always pause, she and I, on every little bridge that spans any…

MelindaOctober 16, 2017

Art Meditation Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

art by my friend Marina Powdermaker. Find more of her work at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MarinaPowdermaker PAST where I am rereading the same testimonies from the same perspective: accused, accuser, over and over the details wearing deep grooves…

MelindaOctober 11, 2017

Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Perhaps you’re an island, but you’re still in the world.

Mass Deception There’s no wonder here. No wonder we are so tight tense irritable. Sick more often. No surprise, no wonderful to see you, no more pleasantries masking indifference or contempt. We have been stripped,…

MelindaOctober 5, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

In Times Like These: Silver Linings of Caregiving

THANK YOU, TEDIUM In the midst of the interminable news; all-bad-all-the-time, chaos and tragedy, aftermath and predictions, close ups and sound bites that feed worry and starve hope, invite helplessness, inside this swirl, this…

MelindaSeptember 19, 2017

Family Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

CONSORTIUM

Superguy is a very private sort. I am too, in my way. There are times, though, when things need to be said, out loud and in public. In a time when stress and fear seem…

MelindaSeptember 12, 2017

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Writing

WHO WILL SING? Autism, Adulthood, and Home

Bink and the big, wide sea WHO WILL SING? She gets older, this daughter of mine, as do I, and the heavy question behind each day, and woven now into each year: what about…

MelindaAugust 24, 2017

Poem Poetry Writing

The Animist in the Basement

In the time of damp basements, I used to talk to the walls sometimes, quite softly, caress them even, my whorled fingertips stroke-searching for the faintest raised evidence of mold. On an August morning, those…

MelindaJuly 25, 2017

Poem Poetry Writing

I Come from the World

Bink would say...a long haired girl day, aka a very good day! I'm pleased to share that I've had two poems published in I Come from the World, a new literary journal. If you'd …

MelindaJuly 19, 2017

From the First of November, 2017

Autographing Autumn

BRIDGES

The Art of Being Present

Perhaps you’re an island, but you’re still in the world.

In Times Like These: Silver Linings of Caregiving

CONSORTIUM

The Animist in the Basement

I Come from the World

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