Category: Summer Sentences
Bling – summer sentences
What kind of courage is it that releases a child to be precisely who she is? What sort of selflessness must be mustered to discover the sometimes unconscious desire to press her into your image, whi... Read More
Talking like leaves – summer sentences
With non-verbal children there is often some confusion with communication – at least there is with mine. I get pretty good at piecing the elements together, using context and intuition to fill... Read More
Healing – summer sentences
The smoke seemed to be clearing a little and I had a guest visiting, so I wondered if there would be much to see from the small mountain where Westminster Abbey makes its home. There is a viewpoint ... Read More
Rolling Stones – summer sentences
How is your summer going? Ours continues to invite us to new possibilities and help us revisit others we haven’t tried in a while because its been impossible to be out in public places. It&#... Read More
Mid-week, summer sentences
( No! I won’t go! she said, using her body punctuation – two stomps. So you don’t have to wonder where we are on harder days ) Before it gets hot, let’s find our spot – walk, and hop... Read More
Canada Day – summer sentences
4. Canada Day: too hustling-bustling; we, reversed momentum. I took your picture; you took mine. Then a turtle – Summer! – the first day! (No need to mention Walmart. Nobody thinks th... Read More
Duck Pond – summer sentences
3. Dad, curious about what he was missing, followed us like pond ducks. I took your picture; you took mine. Then a turtle – Summer! – the first day! (No need to mention Walmart. Nobody thinks ... Read More
Fun House – summer sentences
Toys R Us: museum of the mature, fun house of the child at heart. Summer Sentences is a writing project using Allen Ginsberg’s American Sentences Poetic form — one line of poetry co... Read More