Posted in 25 Things, Family, Growing Older, Laughing, Life, Life In Letters, Relationships, tagged 1970s, being a teenage girl in the 70s, Hallmark, humor, letter writing, old letters, Peanuts on December 5, 2007 | 44 Comments »
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
You.
You who?
You who, take a look at what a dork you were as a teenager!
Have you ever received a Box of Life from your parents? You know, the box they’ve been storing in their garage for the past two or three decades.
I got mine two weeks ago. It’s Box #3. Boxes 1 and 2, which I got [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Bones, Books, Death, Dreams, Gratitude, Growing Older, Life In Letters, Love, Money, Obituaries & Epitaphs, Personal, Place, Politics, Random, Reading, Relationships, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Writers, Writing, tagged Charlie Orr, closing Independent bookstores, history of Orr Books, independent bookstores, Natalie Goldberg, Orr Books, support Independent bookstores, Ted Kooser, Twin Cities Independent bookstores on September 7, 2007 | 37 Comments »
Ranked by local Twin Citians as 15th on a list of top independent bookstores in Minneapolis, Orr Books was one of my favorite independents. For almost 40 years, the tiny, quiet store resided in the largely urban Uptown section of Lake Street. The parking was terrible, but the staff was knowledgeable and friendly. And I could [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Body, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Fotoblog, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Life, Life In Letters, Personal, Photography, Practice, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Vision, Wake Up, Work, Writers, Writing, tagged Agnes Martin, artists, good-bye letter to Agnes Martin, Harwood Museum of Art, Joanne Hunt, New Mexico, red Ravine Guests, Taos, the mountain will find you, the practice of writing, Zen on August 27, 2007 | 21 Comments »
By Joanne Hunt
Agnes Martin Room, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, August 2007, photo © 2007 by Kevin Moul. All rights reserved.
Dear Agnes,
I’m back in Taos. It’s February and as I slow-walked from Mabel Dodge this afternoon, I scuffed through snow still lying on the ground. I’ve paid my seven dollars to gain entry to the [...]
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Posted in Bones, Culture, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Jugular, Life, Life In Letters, Love, Personal, Politics, Practice, Spirituality, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, Work, Writing, tagged Cindy Sheehan, Family, Iraq, letters, peace, Peace Walk, Politics, red Ravine Guests, spirit, Thich Nhat Hanh, war on May 31, 2007 | 60 Comments »
From Beth Howard
May 30, 2007
Dear Cindy,
Yesterday, I read in your on-line diary that you are leaving Crawford, Texas and going home to California. You wrote, “This is my resignation letter as the ‘face’ of the American anti-war movement.” There is so much energy in politics and government that is not peaceful. Much of our [...]
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