emilyinprague
Out with Lanterns
The moment hung in the midday Sunday sun, a burst of vine-ripened blackberry plump and ready to be picked, yet no one dove in. The three...
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emilyinprague
Mar 23, 20239 min
Rendering Flighted Things
To say I was profoundly saddened by the death of my father was truer than tautology, tantamount to this: whales are large and God is...
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emilyinprague
Dec 8, 20212 min
Look around and look beneath your feet.
Look around. This spectacle shines with silly signs of remarkability—that stalk of green onion was bought at Groceries R Us, eaten down...
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emilyinprague
Sep 18, 20217 min
Piano a Piano
These two American beauties and their Italian Sebastiano, a love affair of some years, fed on Tuscan grapes and golden sunlight; they...
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emilyinprague
Jul 13, 20217 min
Her Splendid Joy
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, author Clarissa Pinkola Estés teaches, through myth and story, how wild women can reclaim their true...
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emilyinprague
May 21, 20214 min
How to Run with Suburban Wolves
I met a woman outside the juice shop. She looked so familiar to me. I said, You look so familiar to me. She mused, Maybe we know each...
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emilyinprague
Mar 16, 20211 min
A Whisper or a Bang
This one is for the KFG girls, the wild spirits who know what it means to love the shadows, to drop the mask, to live out loud. Who pull...
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emilyinprague
Jan 20, 20211 min
INAUGURATION DAY
I wrote this poem on the morning of President Biden and Vice President Harris' inaugurations. The "YOU" can be you. It can be anyone you...
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emilyinprague
Nov 21, 20202 min
I Woke Up Like This. . .
This morning I woke up like a fruit, an apple, to be specific, golden growing in some northwest orchard’s corner, southwest region of a...
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emilyinprague
Nov 2, 20204 min
Little Broken Bits
Author Emily Shearer talks about using Toothpaste Anxiety for the greater good.
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emilyinprague
Sep 26, 20201 min
It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster
“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” -Donald Winnicott It is a joy to be hidden, to crouch with just one’s tips and...
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emilyinprague
Aug 12, 20204 min
Chilean Apples
No, First Day of School photos here. Instead, I would like to talk to you about Chilean apples. First of all, thank you for tuning in...
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emilyinprague
Jun 15, 20202 min
In honor of World Oceans Day, June 8, 2020, I wrote this, but don't be fooled. . .
This Poem Is Not About Jacques Cousteau Earth’s cries echo underwater. Everything we’ve done to deface her, the seas mirror. What happens...
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emilyinprague
Jun 15, 20206 min
May All Beings Be One
Why do I march? Mostly for the kids. For what we owe them, a promise to make this better. We must make this better.
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emilyinprague
Apr 26, 20208 min
Permission Slip
The foundation is LOVE. Ooshy-gooshy, radical, profound, patient and personal and spiritual and guided LOVE.
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emilyinprague
Jan 9, 20207 min
Perihelion
January 9, 2020 Is January 9th too late to write an end-of-the-year/ decade synopsis? The kids just went back to school today, for dinner...
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emilyinprague
Nov 13, 20192 min
I and Love and Harry
Walk across the world at dusk. Find one called Hope and place your trust. Sometimes, we fear, this life’s unjust. Sometimes all doubts...
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emilyinprague
Jun 19, 20191 min
Wonder, Transformation, Miracle
from "Where Everything is Music" by Rumi Don't worry about saving these songs and if one our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We...
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