sweet scent of childhood
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sweet scent of childhood
pink powder-puff luxury
feathers on my face
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© Elouise Renich Fraser, 9 January 2015
Photo credit: Mimosa Blossoms, http://www.hiltonpond.org
Telling the Truth
connecting the dots of my life
Tag: Memories
January 10, 2015
December 23, 2014
Dear Mom, As promised,
Christmas pictures from Longwood. Here they are! We got there about 4:15pm, early enough to miss the rush. Here’s what we saw as we walked toward the conservatory.
We stopped for a quick supper in the café. Read the rest of this entry »
December 17, 2014
Dear Mom, It’s Christmas!
Conservatory at Longwood Gardens, Christmas 2005
Conservatory at Longwood Gardens, Christmas 2005
I’ve been listening to Christmas music and thinking about you these days. Remembering what it was like to sing together as a family during the Christmas season, with you at the piano leading us. We stood behind you, looking over your shoulder or singing from memory Read the rest of this entry »
December 16, 2014
The Christmas Present
This story is from a book I wrote in the 1990s. It’s my most vivid childhood memory of Christmas.
I couldn’t forget the look on my mother’s face when I opened my Christmas present from my grandfather. I was about 12 years old. My mother’s father lived in California; we now lived in Georgia. Gifts and letters had replaced lively visits to his apartment. Read the rest of this entry »
December 15, 2014
Ritual of Remembrance
~ ~ ~ King’s College Choir, Cambridge, U.K.
It’s Christmas Eve, 1998. I’m sitting in a chair in our living room, facing our stereo speakers. Tears stream down my face. I’m listening to the annual live broadcast Read the rest of this entry »
November 18, 2014
She remembers me
She remembers me
From long ago
A stranger, yet a friend
She says she was there
The day the war ended.
I don’t remember her. Read the rest of this entry »
November 11, 2014
Day of Remembrance
Taking the day off to remember and give thanks
for the pain-filled beauty and richness of life sacrificed at great cost.
Elouise
© Elouise Renich Fraser, 10 November 2014
Photo by DAFraser, September 2004
November 10, 2014
Looking for Love
I’m ready to revisit this haiku+poetry. It took a while….
carolina wren
peers into old beer bottle –
empty still
* * *
searching for myself
lost somewhere out there
in your eyes your smile
your listening ear
your approval your tenderness
your dream for me Read the rest of this entry »
November 4, 2014
Remembering Bill
On October 31, death put a punctuation point at the end of Bill Supplee’s earth-life. A full stop, like coming to the end of a book.
Bill gave me something to live for. Read the rest of this entry »
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