Becoming
Fran GardnerGo slow now. Take time, feel gratitude, forgive. Be authentic.
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Neighborhood therapy
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Crow poem
In July 2023, I published a poem, Crow Convo, about how crows gather along Portland’s waterfront. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen crows gathering like that.
Crow, Singular
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Read like a child
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Get creative
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Anything will do.
Make a meal, peel a carrot.
Break out the candles,
Eat candy in bed.
Push at you...
Blue moon bunny
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Blue moon and a bunny
I bravely ventured out in my wheelchair at 3 am on June 1 to capture the blue moon, the second full moon of May, which shone in the southern sky on May 31 and June 1.
Someone’s awake in the apartment...
Birthday bridge
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Quotes
In my reading this week, I came upon two quotations that served as prefaces in novels. Both these quotes seem to be speaking to today’s world.
In Little Thieves, by Margaret Owen, the author makes up a proverb:
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Swimming in an ocean of joy
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“I’m talking to myself. That’s all writers really do.” —Elizabeth McCracken
Talking to myself. Yes. That’s what Becoming really is.
The band plays on
A friend and I went to the Beaverton farmers market, where we saw brea...
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Fran Gardner curates a sock drawer of ideas that don’t match. She salts them with photos and poems. Nothing is what you’d expect.
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