Tag Archives: love

Before Christmas this Year I Loved You Once Again

Posted on December 19, 2011 by literarylee

I walked into the house This day, ten days before Christmas. You, your friends, Handel-ing the season at the Concert Hall Me, starting to pack our van, the holiday mobile we will drive to this year’s Noel near the Hudson. … Continue reading →

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Keynote Address Delivered at the Autumnal Equinox Ball (at which a Venerable but Feeble Summer and a Ruddy, Glowing Autumn were in Attendance)

Posted on September 28, 2011 by literarylee

Distinguished Seasons, Special Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,  it is my great privilege to be making a few remarks this evening at the Annual Equinox Ball.  I am especially honored to be seated here at the same table  with our Season … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Union Center

Posted on May 31, 2011 by literarylee

Life in and around the Union Center goes at its own pace, listens to its own music, lives by its own rules.  A jarring combination of open and shut, welcoming and forbidding, not everyone is comfortable even visiting, not to … Continue reading →

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Down to the River to Pray – 1

Posted on April 3, 2011 by literarylee

So surprised to hear the resignation in your voice.  I wouldn’t have expected it given all the good things going on in your life now.   Sensing you so weighed down wrinkled my brows and sagged my heart.  I look … Continue reading →

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Garden: A Love Story – Introduction

Posted on March 18, 2011 by literarylee

A Surgery Planted the Seed Thank goodness for my mother’s back surgery.  No, not really.  I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.  Nevertheless, it was her operation that first opened the door to me, at age 15, to the world of the garden.  Though mom’s surgery was successful … Continue reading →

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Of A’ The Airts

Posted on January 28, 2011 by literarylee

Robert Burns Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonie lassie lives, The lassie I lo’e best: There’s wild-woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between: But day and … Continue reading →

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