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Tag Archives: California
A Week in LA
After almost twenty years to spend a week out in LA and to watch through hotel windows where the rich and famous play (or at least some folks pretending to be worth the time of day, either rock stars in … Continue reading
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Tagged California, change, disappointment, Los Angeles, success, travel
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The Other Shoe Drops
My mother, who turns seventy next year, four days from now is driving from LA, alone across almost two thousand miles (she plans between ten and twelve miles a day) to visit us in New Orleans — she says, for … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, birthdays, California, family, independence, parents, vacations
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Easter by Telephone: a cyhydedd naw ban
In California after eating they called up to offer a greeting, their plates filled with beans and broccoli ours with roast beef and mashed potatoes. We passed the telephone back and forth, discussing children and work; of course, we spoke … Continue reading
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Tagged California, communication, cyhydedd naw ban, daily poems, family, holidays, poetic forms, Welsh verse forms
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Comfortably Numb?
Last night, after consuming far too many cups of jasmine green tea following a day of bad stomach upset and then finally, after a fitful hour or two of tossing and turning to get comfortable lying in bed with a … Continue reading
Haiku for the Holidays
Long lines and cramped flights, bland food tasting like warm crap: holiday travel. Meeting family, all dwelling on past actions; skin deep interest. More useless gifts, and hours wasted in small talk; No relaxation. So rude and hurried. Must keep … Continue reading
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Tagged California, daily poems, haiku, holidays, Japanese verse forms, vacations
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Returning
Ah, my friends, it is good to be home. After a week in southern Californika (which at times seemed like a colony on a far distant planet) in a strange granola world, New Orleans seems like a Mecca for all … Continue reading
Visiting California
Even when I was living there, entrenched in the bustle of its chaotic skirts, finding not much hope – mostly evidence that the entire world had gone mad, or worse – the west coast seemed a little bit surreal; And … Continue reading