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Thanksgiving 2017. Gingko trees, a small boy, a dog, another year.

Posted November 25, 2017 · 3 Comments

On November 25 2016, one year ago, I published a blog that began with a line from W.S. Merwin’s poem, “Thanks.” The blog was about Thanksgiving, two cousins, a few gingko trees, family. It was two goodbyes, one, to my cousin, Edie, who had just died that September, and another to my daughter-in-law’s father, also […]

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The Morning After: A Story of Love and Sorrow and Hope

Posted January 21, 2017 · 6 Comments

            Thursday 19 January 2017 In one of my now fairly infrequent romps through Facebook, I saw this photograph of our president.  It now looks out at me from my computer’s desktop.  It is an image that fills me with both joy and deep sadness.  It is an image whose […]

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“We are saying thank you . . . and waving/dark though it is”

Posted November 25, 2016 · 6 Comments

Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it standing by the […]

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    PD Robertson is a retired English teacher who has lived everywhere from St. Simons Island to Bodega Bay, has raised llamas and kept bees. At age 69 she published her first book, Looking for Lydia; Looking for God (Koehler Books, 2015). She has just completed two novels, Jessie: The Adventures and Insights of a 19th-Century Woman and Jessie: The Further Adventures. She lives with her cat, Isaac, in a 1928 co-op in the Ghent Neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia.
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