Tag: summer
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Protected: Of Softball, Vacation, and East Carolina University
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Of Mothers, Daughters and Cracking Open the Pomegranate…
A fruit of both the body and the soul, the spirit and heart, the pomegranate casts a net long and wide, deep and with breadth stretching into those areas of life perceived not with the eyes but with inner knowing that comes with age and experience. The relationship between mothers and daughters is as old…
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Of Mothers, Daughters and Pomegranate Seeds…
The Greek myth of Persephone centers on the relationship between Persephone and her mother, Demeter. Demeter loved her daughter, Persephone very much. 

The story goes that the Greek God, Apollo, fathered Persephone by Demeter, Apollo’s sister. When Persephone goes missing Demeter, quite distraught, searches every hill and valley to find her daughter and only child.…
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Of Senior Pictures, Former Eastern Block Countries, and Forgotten Anniversary Cards…
The summer has whisked by. One day it was May 31st and our middle was finishing what had been their eleventh grade year–they were a high school junior–and two days later we were listening to a message left by the school photographer stating that senior pictures would be made the following week and leaving the…