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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

An invitation to something new…

It's just become evident to me that I can't do everything! Wow, what a revelation! I can't believe I've spent so many years of my life (partially) believing that I can. Sorry, I'll try to stop doing that!Since my last post here a lot of things have been happening… and I'm going to try to give you a
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

Words for the New Year, images from the past.

My great-grandfather, Sgt. James Hislop Cook's A Coy, 20th Battalion at the C.N.E. in Toronto, March 1915. His Brigade was commanded by Brigadier Armand Armstrong Smith, of the famous E.D. Smith & Sons. He is fourth from the left, seated in the front row. He was a certified marksman, and was wounded
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

'Hum V' Jesus

photography byJoel Clements,Brainstorm StudioYour 'Hum V' Jesus don’t cut it with me.Your tear stained prayer books,pious acts and sideways looks don’t touch my pain.The demon in me plays addictions winning game.And while you dine with your lunch bunch,sip chardonnay and plan a warm beach holiday,I
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

The fear of white

I have found there to be voids, like thetimes when the stark white of it is blindingtransfixing all attempts at meaningful expression,mocking my tongue-tied immobility with blank eyes.A fading memory of grade school reminds me thatfigures placed in appropriate order upon paper make sense,so that is
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

Ode to Arid

my own photography…She described you as ‘brown’and ‘not to her liking’in a turned up nose distasteful kind of way.‘I like the green of it,’ she saidand I wanted to take my little soapboxstand upon itand sing your praises…Instead,I sit down, righteous pen in hand, andwrite an ode to the proven beauty
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

You might like me

I long to share things with youthoughts, feelings, my heartYet you choose to talk about the weatherand the son of a long forgotten friendI’m part of youI came out of youYet you deny the part of methat I want to give back to youSo, I share in the superficialjoin the chatter, and fill the dead airwith
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

Daughter of the King

One day she wakes up weary,of the life she’s come to know.She used to feel potentialnow all she feels is old.Her eyes have lost their brightnessand her soul is growing cold.Nobody seems to notice but the Lord...and He whispers....You are lovelyYou are worthyYou are my delight, for you are daughter o
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

Emerging

Photography by Lisa MabeyToday, at the public pool edgea fleeting reminder of who you once were --golden haired cherub in ruffled daffodil-yellow swim suit,precariously teetering on the edge.No longer infant yet not quite childrounded, soft, with hereyes wide open and heart untouchedby pain of knowl
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

First bite

Self portrait by Graeme EvansDo you feel it…sometimes…an insatiable striving for knowledge?Do you crave it, because Knowledge is achievement. Knowledge is position, Knowledge is power? I know I want it.So I have to ask…When Adam and his first mate took that one (small) bite ofthe fruit of the Kn
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My Grace Notes · 2Y ago

OUTLASTING MOTHS: Great Men

Dear readers,In this wide brave world of the internet, my mention of another human being behind some more words may or may not matter to you… but I have found some incredible writers and poets 'out there', and want to simply ask you to consider the words of this one. Rachel Phillips;OUTLASTING MOTHS
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