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Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18)
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shakespeare Love, like summer, is rest, stillness, and slowing down. Love, like summer, is rejuvenation, quiet, and growth. Love, like summer, breath, b...
read morePorch Swing, Summer in a Glass
Porch swing, summer in a glass./ Drinks get named for thirsts we discuss.// Discussions skirt deeper thirsts./Such thirsts burn, turn sand to mirages./ A mirage is a drink the mind mixes./In a glass marked no it pours out yes.// Yes, the sign says, t...
read moreTo Rest Like a Tree
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all. - Buddha’s Little Instruction Book I love trees. I have a list of my favorite trees from different plac...
read moreWeekly Wide-Awake: Invincible Summer
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”&nbs...
read moreAbout Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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