Eyes: how beauty is–yes–variable by whose behold it

There was a long line at the post office and I had several packages to assemble and address and whatnot, so I was standing in the lobby for quite a while watching other people come in and out and move through the line with their envelopes.  I couldn’t help sort of staring at this one [...]

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small moments

red circleOriginally uploaded by yellowlensI was walking the dog, first thing this morning. I waited and watched the traffic while she sniffed around in the leaves. My breath clouded the air. A schoolbus drove by. As it went over a bump in the road, one of its tail-light covers came flying off and rolled and [...]

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Autobiography of Red. Anne Carson.

It has taken me an outrageously long time to write this annotation.  But here it is.  I’m done.  Sometimes it’s harder to write about the books that you love than about the ones you hated, even though it feels like it should be easy breezy. 

 
Autobiography of Red annotation—On Endings

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