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what if

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", life, story and life, story and theme, tagged , , , , , on November 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What if our smallest actions do matter? What if the frown we gave the clerk at Walgreen’s was the last straw of a bad day? What if we’d smiled instead? There’s a theory out there called the Butterfly Effect. It’s about a small change in an unstable system, like the weather, and how a small [...]

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prodigal

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", creativity, historical fiction, story and life, writing process, tagged , , , , , on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

She leaves me the season’s gifts
crimson tallow leaves
a thousand-petaled camellia
pert johnny-jump-up faces
I like to imagine her in a green silk slip
hazelnuts for eyes
hair corn husks dried and whispering
barefoot, winged, dazzling, elusive
Houston’s winter, subtle until late December
littering her bounty on my sidewalk like some prodigal daughter

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journal entry 11/14/00

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", character, creativity, historical fiction, life, story and theme, theme, tagged , , , , , , , on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What tears were cried Sunday. I cried missed God tears. I was with a Holy Man, and he told a Sufi story. Tell me, the man in the story asked of the Master, how to find God. The Master took the man to the ocean, walked in with him, held him under water until he [...]

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poetry

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", character, creativity, family, historical fiction, life, love, story and family, story and writing, writing, writing process, tagged , , , , , , on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I always tell the people who take my writing classes to listen to the Writers Almanac on NPR. You can even have its daily dose of poetry and Garrison Keillor’s commentary delivered to your email doorstep, hit a link, and hear the podcast. I tell them to listen to it because poetry is the highest [...]

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