Snapshot #24

Our younger cat, Patches, refuses to step on the fuzzy rug in our den, but she loves to perch on the bolster we use to stretch out our backs. This snapshot is called, “Patches’s Aversion to Fuzz.”

Inertia

Inertia: Watching the golf channel all day because it was what Studly had the tv tuned to last night before we went to bed, even though the remote is literally touching my elbow.

The Lasting Memory of Exclusion

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The sting is at once startling and searing.

At first, you think. this isn’t what’s happening. You’re misinterpreting what you see. And then it hits you. You’re being purposely excluded. Those girls  are crossing the street to avoid you. You think you’re imagining something but you know you’re not. It’s real.

It happened to me in high school. When I went to California for a two week visit, I had a best friend, the same best friend I’d had for years. When I came home, she had left me. She said I was ‘different’ but never explained what that meant. I puzzled over this and thought it might be true. The trip was the first time I’d flown anywhere and I went by myself, hunched in the window seat, face up against the glass the entire way. I’d never seen things from that high up. In L.A, my sister handed me the keys to her…

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Snapshots #21 and #22

Aren’t these adorable? They are called “Coral Cactus” and that’s what I’ll call these photos. 

Social Coral Cactus
Solo Coral Cactus

Words and Images Collaboration

I have to share these collaborative pieces. Julie Powell (juliepowell2014.wordpress.com inspires me with her gorgeous photos and I do my best to honor those photos in verse.

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Leslie and I have been busy creating a few more collaborations; her beautiful words and my pretty pictures. Here are a few more in case you have not seen them

Call and Response

Small One

Before we were Kings This is one of my favourites so far….I adore Leslie’s poem and I love the Elephants!

Small Ones

These two are Strange Bedfellows…….

Hippo Dreaming

Til next time, happy snapping…

~Julz

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Snapshot #s 18 and 19

These I’m calling, “Timberrrr” and “Shattered Glass at the Truck Stop.”