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On Searching for a More Apt Word Than FAIL: A Substitute and Not a Synonym

Posted in Art, Becomingness, Details of the homo-social life partnership, Fledging Process, Literature, NaNoWriMo, New beginnings, Self-reflection, Survival, Watercolor, Word gardening, Writing, tagged , , , on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Time is up.
NaNoWriMo has ended.
December 1st has passed.
We survived.
And this, this is the story of survival.

Survival begins much uglier than you might think.
It begins with guilt and shame and a desire to fade into the white and the flurry of fragments — of self and storyline and understanding.
The story is a blurred and spinning motion [...]

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Are we still unfledged?

Posted in Becomingness, Feminism, Film, Fledging Process, New beginnings, Ramblings on life, Sea legs, Seasons: Leaves Snow Flowers Sand, Self-reflection, World travel and wanderlust, tagged , , , , on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The guillemot (a European bird much like Bernsie, herself) hurls itself off a precipice before it is fully fledged, not as a test of will or wings, but as an instinctual following act just a few steps behind its mother.  And the fledgling guillemot doesn’t stick the landing.  It doesn’t even fly.  The guillemot feels [...]

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