Redolent…

    Some words are infused in the mind with their own meaning. They reflect and echo their concept into the mind, cascading and expanding into vision. Redolent. Redolent with the bracing scent of urine… …speaking of the backside of the column holding up an underpass, surrounded by piss-stained brick, in downtown Boston.    …

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Ashley Lyn , You are Loved and You are Missed…

Leaf at St. Joseph’s Hospital by Ashley Lyn Munsinger When Ashley was born, on a bright day in July, her nickname was immediately “Bug,” as in “cute as a bug.” I went in to watch her sleep in her crib almost every night after we brought her home. I watched her very small chest rise…

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Soft Subtle Sound – Inda.Arie

    India.Arie has a vocal phrasing that lilts, harmonizes and brings up the hairs on the back of my neck, it’s so exquisitely threading through notes. My daughter was in a coma for 42 days in 2010. I found and bought 2 CDs of India’s music, Voyage to India and Testimony Vol. 1. I…

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