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Why don’t you stay?*

Posted on August 14, 2008

Sometimes memories come unbidden, leaving us weeping for someone we’ve lost or reminding of us of something we swore we’d never forget, other times it seems as if you can hear the gentle whir of water turning to ice, moment into memory. I was sitting with the girls this afternoon, Fin in her swing and Briar and Avery, fat markers clutched in little hands, at the table on either side of me as I clicked away at my laptop. It was one of those rare moments when everyone was sated, all the necessary drinks and snacks had been doled out, diapers were fresh, art supplies were plentiful and my mood was serene. “Mom, will you turn on the music like we had on last…

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Royal Resuscitation

Posted on August 13, 2008

It’s been quite a week, with family death, local personality death, celebrity death, violent death and more death. It feels as if my heart and mind are on perpetual death skip. Instead of seeing life and promise in everyday moments, I see heartache lapping at the edges, pressing against my every breath. When I was about 8 I was playing on the trailer hitch of my neighbor’s van. I was holding the enormous triangle frame and swinging side to side when all of a sudden the whole metal contraption came whooshing down, pinning me beneath it. The pavement was hot and rough beneath me, the force of the fall had knocked the wind out of me and the weight of the thing held me…

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Soflty into the night

Posted on August 10, 2008

Daughter. Sister. Wife. Friend. Mother. Grandmother. Great grandmother. Beautiful human being. Carolyn Frost Barnes. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. ~William Wordsworth

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