The author on her back porch

Love and A Hurricane

There’s an example of all that is good buzzing at the end of our block. It’s a home being re-built. My friend Judith lost half her house from the wind. It was the only victim of Hurricane Irma in our neighborhood. Her oak tree, with hundreds of rings, gave in to one of the last
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Maureen in the Garden

I Carry Your Heart With Me

E. E. Cummings wrote a poem that I hold in the cup of my hands. It is that precious. He describes his love as part of his being and so pure that it transcends the heart of the natural world. I can’t imagine a more perfect love. My favorite stanza. “(here is the root of
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