As Moriah approaches her first full decade, she begins to sound like the grownups…
“No, she gets to name her own fork.”
…and the grownups slide back toward childhood…
“Stop shining your fork in my eyes!”
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Also heard recently–
“I have a way to put a bun in [...]
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Times are changing in the Ben-Ezra household. We have brought about the end of a thing that has been ever since we moved here. I am very sorry to tell you that the Quiet Room is no more. For those of you who don’t know the Quiet Room was a room in our house that [...]
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I like the contrast between these two haiku–
alone
in a crowd [...]
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loving someone
I’ll never meet
until heaven
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This goes with Gabrielle’s post on Sparkle and Shine:
this harsh, hurting world
if I would touch it
it must also touch me
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Yesterday was Elsie’s sixth birthday. She is now twice the age she was when I moved here. (I’m going on a technicality here, because she turned four about a week later.) I am not going to repeat here the entire spiel about how big she’s getting, or how fast the time is going or any [...]
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silver
swirl of wire–
safety pin
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